Mr. Chuang Yang is currently a visiting PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, funded by China Scholarship Council. He is also a PhD student in Control Science and Engineering at College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. His research interests include brain-inspired navigation and decision-making for aerial vehicles, cooperative navigation and decision-making, inertial-based integrated navigation, and neuromorphic computing. He is a member of Royal Institute of Navigation, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Chinese Neuroscience Society, Chinese Association of Automation, and Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also a Journal Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, and Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology.
How the brain encodes the spatial position of others ?
SOCIAL PLACE CELLS For social animals, such as bats and rats, tracking the position of a conspecific is important for social interactions such as observational learning. Much previous research has described how hippocampal place cells encode one’s own spatial location; however, the neuronal basis for encoding the position of another is unknown. Two new papers(Danjo et al., Omer et al.) identify so-called social place cells : neurons in the dorsal CA1 region (dCA1) of the hippocampus in bats and in rats that encode the position of an observed conspecific.
