Yuqian Zhou

Sep 13, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Jiayi Tian |Yuqian Zhou |Shuyang Yao |Shidan Wen

AbstractSpatial navigation depends on anchoring internal spatial maps to external environments, guided by sensory cues such as visual and tactile stimuli. The Medial Entorhinal Cortex (MEC) is crucial for integrating these sensory inputs during the formation of spatial maps. While the responsiveness of many spatial-coding cells to visual stimuli is well-established, the role of tactile sensation in spatial representation is less understood.

May 2, 2024 | nature.com | Xiang Zhang |Ang Li |Yuqian Zhou

AbstractHippocampal place cells represent the position of a rodent within an environment. In addition, recent experiments show that the CA1 subfield of a passive observer also represents the position of a conspecific performing a spatial task. However, whether this representation is allocentric, egocentric or mixed is less clear. In this study we investigated the representation of others during free behavior and in a task where female mice learned to follow a conspecific for a reward.