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185 claims from 105 papers, showing 41–60 of 105

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Opportunities and limitations of intrinsic functional connectivity MRI

   Buckner, Krienen and Yeo · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“Functional coupling changes dynamically, suggesting that it is constrained by, but not fully dictated by, anatomic connectivity.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network

   Doeller, Barry and Burgess · Nature · 2010

   Rat recordings suggested a brain-imaging signature of grid cells, and the authors report finding grid-cell-like signals in humans in a network of brain regions, strongest in right entorhinal cortex.

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   1. UncheckedIn people exploring a virtual environment, fMRI signals varied with running direction in a six-fold pattern, and more strongly at higher running speeds.“We then looked for this signal as participants explored a virtual reality environment, mimicking the rats' foraging task: fMRI activation and adaptation showing a speed-modulated six-fold rotational symmetry in running direction.”
   2. Unchecked“The signal was found in a network of entorhinal/subicular, posterior and medial parietal, lateral temporal and medial prefrontal areas.”
   3. UncheckedIn this fMRI study, a grid-cell-like directional signal was strongest in right entorhinal cortex and its coherence there tracked spatial memory performance.“The effect was strongest in right entorhinal cortex, and the coherence of the directional signal across entorhinal cortex correlated with spatial memory performance.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

   Aronov, Nevers and Tank · Nature · 2017

   Recording from rat hippocampal and entorhinal neurons during a joystick sound task, the authors found activity mapping the task, overlapping with spatial cell types, suggesting shared mechanisms beyond navigation.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats doing a sound-manipulation task, hippocampal and entorhinal neurons represented the whole task, some firing at specific sound frequencies.“We found neural representation of the entire behavioural task, including activity that formed discrete firing fields at particular sound frequencies.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex

   Fyhn, Hafting, Treves, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2007

   Changes in hippocampal place-cell remapping can be predicted from grid-cell activity one synapse upstream: stable grid fields go with rate remapping, shifted grids with global remapping.

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   1. UncheckedGrid fields of nearby medial entorhinal cortex cells shift and rotate together when the hippocampal place code undergoes global remapping.“Grid fields of co-localized medial entorhinal cortex cells move and rotate in concert during this realignment.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

   Lever, Burton, Jeewajee, O'Keefe and Burgess · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009

   The paper reports cells in the rat subiculum matching the boundary vector cells predicted by place cell models, and discusses how they may supply environmental information and relate to other cell types.

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   1. UncheckedRecordings from the subiculum of freely moving rats show cells that fit the description of the 'boundary vector cells' predicted by earlier models.“Here, we report the existence of cells fulfilling this description in recordings from the subiculum of freely moving rats.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents

   Banino, Barry, Uría et al. · Nature · 2018

   Researchers trained a recurrent network to path-integrate, producing grid-like units, then used these in a reinforcement learning agent that navigated challenging mazes better than comparison agents and an expert human.

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   1. UncheckedArtificial agents with grid-like representations could take shortcuts to goals, a behaviour reminiscent of that seen in mammals.“Furthermore, grid-like representations enabled agents to conduct shortcut behaviours reminiscent of those performed by mammals.”
   2. UncheckedGrid-like patterns that emerged in a trained artificial agent gave it a distance-based sense of space and the vector operations needed to navigate well.“Our findings show that emergent grid-like representations furnish agents with a Euclidean spatial metric and associated vector operations, providing a foundation for proficient navigation.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing

   Burgess, Barry and O'Keefe · Hippocampus · 2007

   The paper extends an oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing to two dimensions, describing a mechanism, a learning rule and predictions about oscillation frequencies in grid cell activity.

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   1. UncheckedThe model proposes that dendritic subunits of layer II medial entorhinal stellate cells each make a linear interference pattern, and their product sets the cell's firing.“Specifically, dendritic subunits of layer II medial entorhinal stellate cells provide multiple linear interference patterns along different directions, with their product determining the firing of the cell.”

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat

   Langston, Ainge, Couey et al. · Science · 2010

   Langston and colleagues studied young rat pups as they first explored outside the nest, to see how the brain's spatial cell types develop, and whether they are acquired or present from the start.

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   1. UncheckedSpatial cell activity in rat pups at their first exits from the nest is taken to point to strong innate components of space perception.“A neural representation of external space at this early time points to strong innate components for perception of space.”

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine: Unifying Space and Relational Memory through Generalization in the Hippocampal Formation

   Whittington, Müller, Mark et al. · Cell · 2020

   The paper presents the Tolman-Eichenbaum machine, a model linking spatial and relational memory, whose artificial cells resemble many recorded hippocampal and entorhinal cell types and predict how remapping works.

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   1. UncheckedAfter training, the units in the paper's model that stand in for entorhinal cells show firing patterns like grid, band, border and object-vector cells.“After learning, TEM entorhinal cells display diverse properties resembling apparently bespoke spatial responses, such as grid, band, border, and object-vector cells.”

10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    A Spin Glass Model of Path Integration in Rat Medial Entorhinal Cortex

    Fuhs and Touretzky · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006

    A simulated network of locally connected units produces hexagonal grids of activity like those of rat entorhinal grid cells, and can be adapted to track position by path integration.

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    1. Unchecked“The spatial firing fields of the simulated cells closely resemble those of dMEC cells.”
    2. UncheckedIn this model, adding an asymmetry lets grid-like activity bumps shift in any direction at a rate proportional to velocity, giving path integration.“Introducing an asymmetry in the model allows the activity bumps to be shifted in any direction, at a rate proportional to velocity, to achieve path integration.”

11. Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation

    A neural network that finds a naturalistic solution for the production of muscle activity

    Sussillo, Churchland, Kaufman and Shenoy · Nature Neuroscience · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Analysis of trained models revealed that the natural dynamical solution was a low-dimensional oscillator that generated the necessary multiphasic commands.”
    2. Unchecked“Notably, data and simulations agreed only when models were optimized to find simple solutions.”

12. Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

    The role of PFC networks in cognitive control and executive function

    Menon and D’Esposito · Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Implementation of cognitive control in a constantly changing environment depends on the dynamic and flexible organization of PFC networks.”

13. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Environmental Boundaries as an Error Correction Mechanism for Grid Cells

    Hardcastle, Ganguli and Giocomo · Neuron · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Further, interactions with boundaries yield direction-dependent error correction, suggesting that border cells serve as a neural substrate for error correction.”
    2. Unchecked“We found that error accumulates relative to time and distance traveled since the animal last encountered a boundary.”
    3. Unchecked“This error reflects coherent drift in the grid pattern.”

14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

    Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Jeffery · Nature Neuroscience · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“Thus grid scale reflects an interaction between intrinsic, path-integrative calculation of location and learned associations to the external environment.”

15. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum

    Boccara, Sargolini, Thoresen et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“The proportion of grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to deep layers of MEC.”
    2. Unchecked“In rats, we found that one of the cell types, the grid cell, was abundant not only in medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), where it was first reported, but also in pre- and parasubiculum.”
    3. Unchecked“The symmetry of the grid pattern and its relationship to the theta rhythm were weaker, especially in presubiculum.”

16. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    On the Stability of BOLD fMRI Correlations

    Laumann, Snyder, Mitra et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“However, we find that observations of "dynamic" BOLD correlations during the resting state are largely explained by sampling variability.”
    2. Unchecked“Beyond sampling variability, the largest part of observed "dynamics" during rest is attributable to head motion.”
    3. Unchecked“An additional component of dynamic variability during rest is attributable to fluctuating sleep state.”

17. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Activity flow over resting-state networks shapes cognitive task activations

    Cole, Ito, Bassett and Schultz · Nature Neuroscience · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“We found that estimating task-evoked activity flow (the spread of activation amplitudes) over resting-state FC networks allowed prediction of cognitive task activations in a large-scale neural network model.”
    2. Unchecked“Applying this insight to empirical functional MRI data, we found that cognitive task activations can be predicted in held-out brain regions (and held-out individuals) via estimated activity flow over resting-state FC networks.”

18. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Statistical harmonization corrects site effects in functional connectivity measurements from multi‐site fMRI data

    Yu, Linn, Cook et al. · Human Brain Mapping · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Indeed, in this study, we found that the magnitude of site effects depended on the choice of connectivity metric and brain atlas.”
    2. Unchecked“In the current work, ComBat successfully removed site effects identified in connectivity and network measures and increased the power to detect age associations when using optimal combinations of connectivity metrics and brain atlases.”

19. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The Aging Navigational System

    Lester, Moffat, Wiener, Barnes and Wolbers · Neuron · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Critically, we show 1) that navigational deficits cannot solely be explained by general deficits in learning and memory, 2) that there is no uniform decline across different navigational computations, and 3) that navigational deficits might be sensitive mark…

20. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Toward open sharing of task-based fMRI data: the OpenfMRI project

    Poldrack, Barch, Mitchell et al. · Frontiers in Neuroinformatics · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“Clustering analyses show that the similarity relations between statistical maps have a somewhat orderly relation to the mental functions engaged by the relevant tasks.”