Topic: obstacle avoidance

Goal-directed spatial navigation requires accurate estimates of one’s position and destination, but these estimates are still not sufficient. An animal is often required to plan a navigational route because a direct path to the goal is not necessarily available. Despite its importance, the neural circuits supporting route planning ability remain poorly understood. Previous studies have implicated the orbitofrontal cortex in representing an animal's destination, and the hippocampus in representing its own position as well as goal-directed paths. We hypothesize that interactions between these re