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About Us
About Us
Welcome to Spatial Navigation group at the CNS lab. We focus on studying how the external world is mapped on to the brain in the form of spatial cell representations by developing mathematical models based on oscillatory networks.
The videos found on the left, show the single cell recording of a grid cell (top) and a place cell(bottom). These cells play an important role in the formation of cognitive map besides other spatial cells such as head direction cells and boundary cells, which enables one to efficiently navigate through an environment.
With existing models capable of giving rise to a spectrum of spatial cells from our lab, we aim to unravel the neuroscientific principles that steer the brain's GPS system.
Objectives
Objectives
To understand the interactive mechanisms between cortical and subcortical structures that facilitate navigation.
To establish a comprehensive theoretical framework of the entire process of spatial navigation explaining the mathematical processes behind a wide range of both two dimensional and three dimensional navigational tasks.
To deduce the association between different sensory inputs such as vision, proprioception, audition etc and their contribution towards the formation of spatial maps.
Video source: Youtube, Channels: Derdikman (Grid cell), Roddy Grieves (Place cell)
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