Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to let you know of the upcoming special issue of Biological Cybernetics entitled ‘Complex spatial navigation in animals, computational models and neuro-inspired robots’.

All articles are now available online. Apologies for any duplications.

• Editorial: Complex spatial navigation in animals, computational models and neuro-inspired robots.
  Jean-Marc Fellous, Peter F. Dominey and Alfredo Weitzenfeld.
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00832-y
• From spatial navigation via visual construction to episodic memory and imagination.
  Michael A. Arbib.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00829-7

• A neural model of schemas and memory encoding.
  Tiffany Hwu and Jeffrey L. Krichmar.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-019-00808-7

• A computational model for spatial cognition combining dorsal and ventral hippocampal place field maps: multi-scale navigation.
  Pablo Scleidorovich, Martin Llofriu, Jean-Marc Fellous and Alfredo Weitzenfeld.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-019-00812-x

• Bio-inspired multi-scale fusion.
  Stephen Hausler, Zetao Chen, Michael E. Hasselmo and Michael Milford.
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00831-z
• Modeling awake hippocampal reactivations with model-based bidirectional search.
  Mehdi Khamassi and Benoit Girard.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00817-x

• Real-time sensory-motor integration of hippocampal place cell replay and prefrontal sequence learning in simulated and physical rat robots for novel path optimization.
  Nicolas Cazin, Pablo Scleidorovich, Alfredo Weitzenfeld and Peter F. Dominey.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00820-2

• Cognitive swarming in complex environments with attractor dynamics and oscillatory computing.
  Joseph D. Monaco, Grace M. Hwang, Kevin M. Schultz and Kechen Zhang.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00823-z

• Conjunctive reward-place coding properties of dorsal distal CA1 hippocampus cells.
  Zhuocheng Xiao, Kevin Lin and Jean-Marc Fellous.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00830-0

• A model of path integration and representation of spatial context in the retrosplenial cortex.
  Mingda Ju and Philippe Gaussier.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00833-x

Jean-Marc Fellous

Peter Dominey

Alfredo Weitzenfeld