scholarly journals Theta rhythm of navigation: Link between path integration and landmark navigation, episodic and semantic memory

Hippocampus ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 827-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
György Buzsáki
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Path Integration ◽  
Theta Rhythm ◽  
Landmark Navigation

scholarly journals Egocentric Navigation Abilities Predict Episodic Memory Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgia Committeri ◽  
Agustina Fragueiro ◽  
Maria Maddalena Campanile ◽  
Marco Lagatta ◽  
Ford Burles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Path Integration ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Declarative Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Egocentric Navigation

The medial temporal lobe supports both navigation and declarative memory. On this basis, a theory of phylogenetic continuity has been proposed according to which episodic and semantic memories have evolved from egocentric (e.g., path integration) and allocentric (e.g., map-based) navigation in the physical world, respectively. Here, we explored the behavioral significance of this neurophysiological model by investigating the relationship between the performance of healthy individuals on a path integration and an episodic memory task. We investigated the path integration performance through a proprioceptive Triangle Completion Task and assessed episodic memory through a picture recognition task. We evaluated the specificity of the association between performance in these two tasks by including in the study design a verbal semantic memory task. We also controlled for the effect of attention and working memory and tested the robustness of the results by including alternative versions of the path integration and semantic memory tasks. We found a significant positive correlation between the performance on the path integration the episodic, but not semantic, memory tasks. This pattern of correlation was not explained by general cognitive abilities and persisted also when considering a visual path integration task and a non-verbal semantic memory task. Importantly, a cross-validation analysis showed that participants' egocentric navigation abilities reliably predicted episodic memory performance. Altogether, our findings support the hypothesis of a phylogenetic continuity between egocentric navigation and episodic memory and pave the way for future research on the potential causal role of egocentric navigation on multiple forms of episodic memory.

scholarly journals Neurofeedback Training Improves Long-Term Memory Performance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Hsuan Tseng ◽  
Kaori Tamura ◽  
Tsuyoshi Okamoto
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Theta Rhythm ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Beta Power

Abstract Understanding and improving memory is vital to enhance human life. Theta rhythm is associated with memory consolidation and coding, but the trainability and effects on long-term memory of theta rhythm are unknown. This study investigates the ability to improve long-term memory using a neurofeedback (NFB) technique reflecting the theta/low-beta power ratio on an electroencephalogram (EEG). Our study consisted of three stages: First, the long-term memory of participants was measured. In the second stage, the participants in the NFB group received three days of theta/low-beta NFB training. In the third stage, the long-term memory was measured again. The NFB group had better long-term memory than the control group and significant differences in brain activity between episodic and semantic memory during the recall tests were revealed. These findings suggest that it is possible to improve the long-term memory abilities through theta/low-beta NFB training, which also improves episodic and semantic memory.

Ageing effects on path integration and landmark navigation

Hippocampus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 1770-1780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew A. Harris ◽  
Thomas Wolbers
Keyword(s):  
Path Integration ◽  
Ageing Effects ◽  
Landmark Navigation

scholarly journals Landmark navigation in a mantis shrimp

2020 ◽  
Vol 287 (1936) ◽  
pp. 20201898
Author(s):  
Rickesh N. Patel ◽  
Thomas W. Cronin
Keyword(s):  
Path Integration ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Integration System ◽  
Tropical Waters ◽  
Mantis Shrimp ◽  
Positional Uncertainty ◽  
Landmark Navigation ◽  
Navigational System ◽  
Accumulated Error

Mantis shrimp commonly occupy burrows in shallow, tropical waters. These habitats are often structurally complex where many potential landmarks are available. Mantis shrimp of the species Neogonodactylus oerstedii return to their burrows between foraging excursions using path integration, a vector-based navigational strategy that is prone to accumulated error. Here, we show that N. oerstedii can navigate using landmarks in parallel with their path integration system, correcting for positional uncertainty generated when navigating using solely path integration. We also report that when the path integration and landmark navigation systems are placed in conflict, N. oerstedii will orientate using either system or even switch systems enroute. How they make the decision to trust one navigational system over another is unclear. These findings add to our understanding of the refined navigational toolkit N. oerstedii relies upon to efficiently navigate back to its burrow, complementing its robust, yet error prone, path integration system with landmark guidance.

scholarly journals Landmark navigation in a mantis shrimp

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rickesh N. Patel ◽  
Thomas W. Cronin
Keyword(s):  
Path Integration ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Integration System ◽  
Tropical Waters ◽  
Mantis Shrimp ◽  
Landmark Navigation ◽  
Navigational System ◽  
Accumulated Error

SummaryMantis shrimp are predatory crustaceans that commonly occupy burrows in shallow, tropical waters worldwide. Most of these animals inhabit structurally complex, benthic environments where many potential landmarks are available. Mantis shrimp of the species Neogonodactylus oerstedii return to their burrows between foraging excursions using path integration, a vector-based navigational strategy that is prone to accumulated error. Here we show that N. oerstedii can navigate using landmarks in parallel with their path integration system, offseting error generated when navigating using solely path integration. We also report that when the path integration and landmark navigation systems are placed in conflict, N. oerstedii will orient using either system or even switch systems enroute. How they make the decision to trust one navigational system over another is unclear. These findings add to our understanding of the refined navigational toolkit N. oerstedii relies upon to efficiently navigate back to its burrow, complementing its robust, yet error prone, path integration system with landmark guidance.

The Representation of Space and the Hippocampus in Rats, Robots and Humans

1998 ◽  
Vol 53 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 504-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Burgess ◽  
James G. Donnett ◽  
John O ’Keefe
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Firing Rate ◽  
Path Integration ◽  
Theta Rhythm ◽  
Place Cells ◽  
System A ◽  
Representation Of Space ◽  
Rate Coding ◽  
Use Phase

Abstract Experimental evidence suggests that the hippocampus represents locations within an allocentric representation of space. The environmental inputs that underlie the rat’s representa­tion of its own location within an environment (in the firing of place cells) are the distances to walls, and different walls are identified by their allocentric direction from the rat. We propose that the locations of goals in an environment is stored downstream of the place cells, in the subiculum. In addition to firing rate coding, place cells may use phase coding relative to the theta rhythm of the EEG. In some circumstances path integration may be used, in addition to environmental information, as an input to the hippocampal system. A detailed computational model of the hippocampus successfully guides the navigation of a mobile robot. The model’s behaviour is compared to electrophysiological and behavioural data in rats, and implications for the role of the hippocampus in primates are explored.

scholarly journals Theta rhythm supports hippocampus-dependent integrative encoding in schematic/semantic memory networks

NeuroImage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 117558
Author(s):  
Berta Nicolás ◽  
Jacint Sala-Padró ◽  
David Cucurell ◽  
Mila Santurino ◽  
Mercè Falip ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Theta Rhythm

Wechsler Memory Scale, Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test, and Everyday Memory Questionnaire in Healthy Adults and Alzheimer Patients

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Efklides ◽  
Efterpi Yiultsi ◽  
Theopisti Kangellidou ◽  
Fotini Kounti ◽  
Fotini Dina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Memory ◽  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Memory Test ◽  
Healthy Adults ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
Everyday Memory ◽  
Wechsler Memory Scale ◽  
Everyday Memory Questionnaire ◽  
Behavioral Memory ◽  
Memory Questionnaire

Summary: The Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS) is a laboratory-based memory test that has been criticized for its lack of ecological validity and for not testing long-term memory. A more recent memory test, which aims at testing everyday memory, is the Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test (RBMT); it tests prospective memory and other forms of memory not tapped by WMS. However, even this test does not capture all aspects of everyday memory problems often reported by adults. These problems are the object of the Everyday Memory Questionnaire (EMQ). This study aimed at identifying the relationships between these three memory tests. The differential effect of Alzheimer's disease (AD) on the above relationships was also studied. The sample consisted of 233 healthy adults (20 to 75+ years of age) and 39 AD patients (50 to 75 years of age). Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the following latent factors: Verbal Memory, Visual Reconstruction, Orientation, Message (action embedded in spatial context), Visual Recognition, Spatial Memory, New Learning/Association Forming, Prospective/Episodic Memory, and Metamemory. These first-order factors were further explained by two second-order factors: Semantic Memory and Coordination of Semantic and Visuo-Spatial Memory. This basic structure was preserved in the sample of AD patients, although AD patients performed less well on the WMS and the RBMT. Some interesting findings regarding semantic memory, face recognition, and metamemory in AD patients are also reported. Age, education, but no gender effects on memory performance were also detected.

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