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Rate adaptation in a continuous attractor predicts the alternating left/right theta sweeps observed in hippocampus and mEC. Really nice computational model, backed up with a reanalysis of ephys data, from Widloski, Theurel and Foster: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In 1950s/60s "curiosity" was one of the theories proposed for exploration in animals. The issue was that the theory (curiosity) could only be measured using the thing it was supposed to explain (exploration). Makes sense to look at this in humans, where you can just ask them how curious they are!

Ethologists and neuroscientists: What is a theoretical ethology paper that has shaped the way you think about behaviour? Here I'm not thinking experimental papers with a point, or even tools that are developed to prove a point - purely theoretical, making conceptual, general points.

Paper from Mainali et al. modelling place cells "across species and dimensionalities" doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Unfortunately it overlooks our rodent place cell results in 3D: doi.org/10.1038/s414... Which arguably make the best comparison to flying bats 🤦 #Neuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience

Nice paper from Subramanian & David Smith looking at time cells in the retrosplenial cortex: doi.org/10.1002/hipo... #Neuroscience #Neurobiology #Neurons #hippocampus

I enjoyed this preprint from Ottaviani et al. a lot. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "we found that the relative frequency of novelty terms (e.g. groundbreaking, innovative) nearly doubled" between 1997 and 2017. #Ecology #Metascience #AcademicChallenges

Ji et al, Burgess lab: phase precession, theta skipping & theta modulation of head direction cells in the anteroventral thalamic nucleus (AVN). Explained using a ring attractor model with theta input and firing rate adaptation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Neuroscience #Neurons

Quite a nice paper/model. I really like that it doesn't explain place cells in a vacuum - it incorporates place/boundary/pbject/grid cells into a holistic representation of space that can be used for planning. Definitely check it out.

Short preprint from Soldi et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... which I found quite interesting. Inactivation of dentate gyrus did not impact performance very much in a spatial task with overlapping elements. #Neuroscience #Hippocampus #BrainResearch #AnimalNavigation

Interesting commentary onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... on a paper that was published a little while ago (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...) which claimed mice were taking shortcuts based on self-motion information alone. #AnimalNavigation #BehavioralNeuroscience #Shortcutting #AnimalBehavior

Really nice experiment from Zutshi et al. looking at how the hippocampus encodes non-spatial variables, like auditory cue tones, while animals solve a spatial task: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Neuroscience #Hippocampus #BrainScience

A nice discussion and comparison of the 'natural history' and 'natural philosophy' approaches to the study of animal behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #AnimalBehaviour #BehavioralScience #Neuroethology

"Nine rats were trained in an olfactory discrimination task (go/no-go) using a specific wine variety (Riesling or Sauvignon Blanc from different winemakers)" 😂 From: Rats can distinguish (and generalize) among two white wine varieties doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Hi Bluesky! It's been a long time since I used any social media but I thought I would give this community a go. I'm here mainly for the neuroscience chat and to see all the cool papers coming out. I'll probably occassionally post about cool papers I've read...