Abstract

This symposium explores the hippocampus's dual roles in encoding navigation and visual feature spaces, bridging research across species. Presentations will highlight sensory integration in rat cognitive maps, single-neuron mechanisms in human spatial navigation, and hippocampal encoding of abstract visual features. Featuring a diverse group of scientists from three continents, it offers fresh insights into the neural computations that shape our understanding of space and memory.

The first talk will focus on key aspects of sensory integration within a cognitive map in rats. The second talk will delve into the neuronal mechanisms governing the integration of bodily signals during spatial navigation in the human hippocampus. The third talk will focus on the abstract domain, demonstrating how single neurons in the human hippocampus encode a visual feature space. Together, these talks will offer a cross-species perspective, highlighting the shared and distinct roles of the hippocampus in spatial and abstract cognitive processes.