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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please note the upcoming special issue of
<i>Biological Cybernetics</i> entitled ‘<b>Complex spatial navigation in animals, computational models and neuro-inspired robots</b>’.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All articles are now available online. Apologies for any duplications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Editorial:
<b>Complex spatial navigation in animals, computational models and neuro-inspired robots.</b>
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Jean-Marc Fellous, Peter F. Dominey and Alfredo Weitzenfeld.<br>
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00832-y">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00832-y</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From spatial navigation via visual construction to episodic memory and imagination.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
Michael A. Arbib.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00829-7">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00829-7</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A neural model of schemas and memory encoding.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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Tiffany Hwu and Jeffrey L. Krichmar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-019-00808-7">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-019-00808-7</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A computational model for spatial cognition combining dorsal and ventral hippocampal place field maps: multi-scale navigation.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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Pablo Scleidorovich, Martin Llofriu, Jean-Marc Fellous and Alfredo Weitzenfeld.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-019-00812-x">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-019-00812-x</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bio-inspired multi-scale fusion.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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Stephen Hausler, Zetao Chen, Michael E. Hasselmo and Michael Milford.<br>
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00831-z">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00831-z</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Modeling awake hippocampal reactivations with model-based bidirectional search.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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Mehdi Khamassi and Benoit Girard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00817-x">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00817-x</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Real-time sensory-motor integration of hippocampal place cell replay and prefrontal sequence learning in simulated and physical rat robots
for novel path optimization.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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Nicolas Cazin, Pablo Scleidorovich, Alfredo Weitzenfeld and Peter F. Dominey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00820-2">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00820-2</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cognitive swarming in complex environments with attractor dynamics and oscillatory computing.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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Joseph D. Monaco, Grace M. Hwang, Kevin M. Schultz and Kechen Zhang.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00823-z">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00823-z</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conjunctive reward-place coding properties of dorsal distal CA1 hippocampus cells.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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Zhuocheng Xiao, Kevin Lin and Jean-Marc Fellous.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00830-0">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00830-0</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A model of path integration and representation of spatial context in the retrosplenial cortex.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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Mingda Ju and Philippe Gaussier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00833-x">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00422-020-00833-x</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jean-Marc Fellous<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Peter Dominey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alfredo Weitzenfeld<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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