In summary, visual objects refine population-level head-direction coding in postsubiculum, potentially helping the brain’s internal compass anchor to external cues. Whether this extends to other types of spatially tuned neurons remains an exciting open question!
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Exciting new results now published in Science: responses to visual objects are boosted in the brain's spatial navigation system. Read more in the thread below! Congratulations to all the authors!!

Stoked to see this paper finally out!

It answers two big questions: where visual objects are encoded in the brain, and how head-direction cells get oriented using visual landmarks.

Super fun collaboration with @mace-lab.bsky.social and Stuart Trenholm.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Such a fun collaboration to be a part of! Turns out, like many things in the brain, inhibition-stabilization is the answer. 👀🧭⚖️

This was a real testament to just how fun and fruitful a collaborative project can be. Thank you Emilie, Dom, and Stuart for inviting us in!

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed working on it!

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Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨

We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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My research question is simple: How does everything connect to everything else in a way is new and yet totally obvious?