Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Mouse entorhinal cortex encodes a diverse repertoire of self-motion signals

  • Caitlin S. Mallory,
  • Kiah Hardcastle,
  • Malcolm G. Campbell,
  • Alexander Attinger,
  • Isabel I. C. Low,
  • Jennifer L. Raymond,
  • Lisa M. Giocomo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20936-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Here, the authors show that mouse medial entorhinal cortex encodes three-dimensional head movement as well as eye position and velocity. These self-motion signals are represented conjunctively in individual neurons alongside body position, running speed, and azimuthal head direction.