Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Egocentric Asymmetric Coding in Sensory Cortical Border Cells Both egocentric and allocentric representations of space are essential to spatial navigation. Although some studies of egocentric coding have been conducted within and around the hippocampal formation, externally anchored egocentric spatial representations have not yet been fully explored. Here we record and identify two subtypes of border cell in the rat primary somatosensory cortex (S1) and secondary visual cortex (V2). Subpopulations of S1 and V2 border cells exhibit rotation-selective asymmetric firing fields in an either clockwise (CW) or counterclockwise (CCW) manner. CW- and CCW-border cells increase their firing rates when animals move unidirectionally along environmental border(s). We demonstrate that both CW- and CCW-border cells fire in an egocentric reference frame relative to environmental borders, maintain preferred directional tunings in rotated, stretched, dark as well as novel arenas, and switch their directional firings in the presence of multi-layer concentric enclosures. These findings may provide rotation-selective egocentric reference frames within a larger spatial navigation system, and point to a common computational principle of spatial coding shared by multiple sensory cortical areas.

HighlightsO_LIEgocentric border cells are present in rat S1 and V2
C_LIO_LISubtypes of border cells display egocentric asymmetric coding
C_LIO_LIEgocentric and allocentric streams coexist in sensory cortices
C_LIO_LIRotation-selective asymmetric firing is robust with environmental manipulations
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