I was watching a recording of #Inav22 (Interdisciplinary Navigation Conference, virtual format), in particular, a session starting with a talk from @BenoitGirard on #NavigationStrategies ... Thinking "yeah that's a pretty interesting talk!"... when came the time of questions from the audience and my own question was asked! 😅 I had totally forgotten that I "was" there!

I guess the virtual conferences are indeed slightly less memorable than real life ones... As memory researchers we should really find a way to improve this!

(The talks are available here: https://www.inavsymposium.com/inav-2022/)
#Navigation #Conferences #VirtualConferences

My latest #Neuroesc #JournalClub was on this:
Rat anterior cingulate neurons responsive to rule or strategy changes are modulated by the hippocampal theta rhythm and sharp-wave ripples

I won't do a super-long summary like last time, but please share your thoughts if you've read it!

The author line-up is quite interesting, I think they were all students at the time of data collection which seems to have happened a long time ago, and now many are PIs (@BenoitGirard probably knows about the backstory...)! Probably a pandemic paper??

The scientific question (what supports rule recognition and strategy shift) is really interesting, and they record in the frontal cortex (#ACC) as well as #Hippocampus (ventral CA1!), but the rats just were not up to the task (1/5 rats actually did what they wanted). I am also not fully convinced by some of the analysis. @jessetm I'd be interested to know what you think of their strategy detection method!

Why is it that all papers looking at these themes always end up being.. quite complex??

#Neuroscience #NavigationStrategies #theta #swr #NeuroRat

For our next #NeuroESC #JournalClub I will read this paper from @jessetm :

Flexible decision-making is related to strategy learning, vicarious trial and error, and medial prefrontal rhythms during spatial set-shifting

get the PDF at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qmfyeNkOwe_R-tvCOc0uSq3AX2WkMt4I/view?usp=sharing

Anyone else interested? We could all pledge to read it and then discuss it here afterwards (Next Friday) 👀

#Neuroscience #VTE #FlexibleDecisions #SpatialCognition #mPFC #NavigationStrategies