International Graduate School of Neuroscience
Colloquium
The entorhinal cortex and spatial navigation:focusing on path integration
Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 3 p.m., Seminar Room FNO - 01 / 117
- Etienne Save
- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience,Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille, France
The entorhinal cortex (CE), a major source of afferent input for the hippocampus plays a crucial role in spatial memory and navigation. Lesion and electro- physiological (grid cells) data suggest that the CE is important for a form of navigation called path integration. Path integration depends on the use of motion- related cues (also called idiothetic or internal cues; e.g. vestibular cues) and allows an animal to continuously keep track of its location relative to a reference place. It is also of a crucial importance to maintain a stable representation of space in absence of environmental cues. How the CE contributes to path integration is still poorly known however.In my talk, I will present a number of recent lesion and electrophysiological studies that provide new hints on the contribution of the CE to path integration.
Host
- Magdalena Sauvage
Mercator Research Group "Structure of Memory" Functional Architecture of Memory Faculty of Medicine Ruhr-University Bochum