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Mar 6, 2024 · Given that the combination of straight lines and curves can give rise to any shape, we hypothesized that the brain encodes the concave and convex curvatures of an environment (for example, corners ...
Mar 6, 2024 · Earlier work has demonstrated that neurons in the subiculum encode the locations of environmental boundaries and objects in an allocentric reference frame, as well as the axis of travel in multi-path environments 25, 33 – 35. Here, we describe single-cell neural representations for concave and convex environmental corners and curvatures in ...
- 10.1038/s41586-024-07139-z
- 2024
- Nature. 2024; 627(8005): 821-829.
Mar 6, 2024 · The color scale codes the level of neural firing activity (red for high, blue for low). From left to right, concave, convex and straight environmental features are respectively encoded by corner cells (concave or convex) and boundary vector cells. Irvine, Calif., March. 06, 2024 — A research team co-led by the University of California, Irvine ...
Mar 6, 2024 · A research team co-led by the University of California, Irvine, Stanford University and the University of California, San Diego has discovered that there are special neurons dedicated to representing the convex and concave features of environments (commonly referred to as “corners”) in their study of the brain’s spatial mapping system.
Mar 14, 2024 · The encoding of the cells also generalizes to other concave curvatures in the environment, such as high-concavity regions of an oval arena. Next, the authors asked whether subiculum neurons also ...
- Katherine Whalley
- nrn@nature.com
Mar 6, 2024 · brain encodes the concave and conve x curvatures of an environment (for example, corners and curved protrusions), in addition to straight boundaries 24 , 25 , 29 .
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Nov 27, 2012 · Interest in convexity has a long history in vision science. For smooth contours in an image, it is possible to code regions of positive (convex) and negative (concave) curvature, and this provides useful information about solid shape. We review a large body of evidence on the role of this information in perception of shape and in attention. This includes evidence from behavioral ...