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From Perception to Representation of Space: Use of Virtual Reality in Rodent| old_uid | 15370 |
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| title | From Perception to Representation of Space: Use of Virtual Reality in Rodent |
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| start_date | 2015/03/24 |
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| schedule | 12h15 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | How does the brain encode space? Since the discovery of place cells it is thought that the cognitive map is formed in the hippocampus (O’Keefe & Nadel, 1978). As the representation of space integrates multisensory features from the environment, a large body of literature had focused on testing the influence of different sensory modalities, by modulating mostly visual, vestibular and local cues. However determining precisely their selective contribution is difficult. To address this problem, we developed an immersive virtual reality (VR) system where vestibular and local cues do not provide any spatial information (Ravassard et al., 2013). I will present our findings and recent data suggesting that place cells coding results in cooperative and competitive mechanisms to select multisensory inputs. |
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| responsibles | Devaud |
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