#neuromice — Public Fediverse posts

Here's a very interesting paper from the #KeinathLab:

Environmental representations in mouse hippocampal CA1 reflect the predictive structure of navigation

In the absence of task or reward, #PlaceCells appear to reflect the past history of behavioural biases, i.e. the accumulated past paths taken by each individual mouse. I am actually starting to think that #HippocampalReplay is doing a similar thing - just reflecting an average of the individual's past behaviour, and that all supposed "coding" of reward is purely driven by this (notice how reward "coding" always seems to happen in cases where reward biases the behavioural patterns..) 👀🧠🤔

#Neuroscience #Hippocampus #NeuroMice

Following-up on this, I have asked the following question on #NeuroMethods without success:

Anyone knows of any (published or not, successful or not) replication attempts of the #Tolman Sunburst maze "shortcut" task, in mice?

I'm also interested in info on any kind of unpublished replication attempt, in any species...

#Neuroscience #NeuroMice #Shortcut #CognitiveMap

Anyone knows of researchers that compare #Mice and #Rats behaviour (ideally in complex tasks)? It could be in #SpatialCognition but also in other fields. Papers that directly compare both species would also be great.

#BehaviouralNeuroscience #NeuroMice #NeuroRats

#PostdocJob from the #RuedigerLab at #UCL, London:

"I’m excited to share that we have an opening for a postdoctoral position in my lab at University College London. This role is funded by the Wellcome Trust and offers a unique chance to join our team as we work to understand how cortical and subcortical visual circuits work together to turn visual signals into learned actions in mice.
In this role, you will:
• Design and perform innovative experiments in head-fixed and freely moving mice
• Use advanced techniques like #Neuropixels recordings and two-photon calcium imaging to monitor and analyze brain activity
• Collaborate closely with a diverse team of experimentalists and computational neuroscientists
• Contribute to the preparation and dissemination of our research findings through publications and conference presentations

This is a fantastic opportunity to make original contributions to our growing research group. If you have a strong background in in vivo physiology, mouse behavioral studies, and relevant data analysis - and you’re eager to expand your skills while playing a key role in our projects - I’d love to hear from you.

For further details, including the full job description, please check out:
Job Ad

I look forward to the possibility of you joining our team.
Sarah"

#NeuroMice #Neuroscience #InVivoEphys

Here’s a really cool and complete Review on the behaviour and (a little) electrophysiology of spontaneous #Exploration in #NeuroRats and #NeuroMice. It will tell you all about #HomeBases and #Excursions and their differences between rats and mice. Why am I seeing this just now?!

Behavioral and neural subsystems of rodent exploration
#Hippocampus #ClarkLab #Navigation

Some very nice #PlaceCells and #GridCells in this Virtual Reality experiment in #NeuroMice!
#NeuroPreprint from the #ChenLab:

Visual boundary cues, alone, can anchor place and grid cells in virtual reality

Some very nice #PlaceCells and #GridCells in this Virtual Reality experiment in #NeuroMice!
#NeuroPreprint from the #ChenLab:

Visual boundary cues, alone, can anchor place and grid cells in virtual reality

Some very nice #PlaceCells and #GridCells in this Virtual Reality experiment in #NeuroMice!
#NeuroPreprint from the #ChenLab:

Visual boundary cues, alone, can anchor place and grid cells in virtual reality

Some very nice #PlaceCells and #GridCells in this Virtual Reality experiment in #NeuroMice!
#NeuroPreprint from the #ChenLab:

Visual boundary cues, alone, can anchor place and grid cells in virtual reality

…. y’all need to check this out 👀🤔

Egocentric vector coding of geometric vertex in the retrosplenial cortex
#NeuroMice #RetrosplenialCortex #CalciumImaging #EgocentricCoding

#NeuroPreprint #Hippocampus
Learning produces a hippocampal cognitive map in the form of an orthogonalized state machine

#NeuroMice #CognitiveMap #CalciumImaging #SprustonLab #Modeling (#Need2Read)