TY  - INPR
A1  - Wijngaarden, Joeri B. G. van
A1  - Babl, Susanne
A1  - Ito, Hiroshi T.
T1  - Representation of distance and direction of nearby boundaries in retrosplenial cortex
T2  - bioRxiv
N2  - Borders and edges are salient and behaviourally relevant features for navigating the environment. The brain forms dedicated neural representations of environmental boundaries, which are assumed to serve as a reference for spatial coding. Here we expand this border coding network to include the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) in which we identified neurons that increase their firing near all boundaries of an arena. RSC border cells specifically encode walls, but not objects, and maintain their tuning in the absence of direct sensory detection. Unlike border cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), RSC border cells are sensitive to the animal’s direction to nearby walls located contralateral to the recorded hemisphere. Pharmacogenetic inactivation of MEC led to a disruption of RSC border coding, but not vice versa, indicating network directionality. Together these data shed light on how information about distance and direction of boundaries is generated in the brain for guiding navigation behaviour.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/72649
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-726498
IS  - 807453
ER  -