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187 claims from 107 papers, showing 101–107 of 107

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Locations in the Neocortex: A Theory of Sensorimotor Object Recognition Using Cortical Grid Cells

   Lewis, Purdy, Ahmad and Hawkins · Frontiers in Neural Circuits · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Simulations show that the model can learn hundreds of objects even when object features alone are insufficient for disambiguation.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Spatial coding dysfunction and network instability in the aging medial entorhinal cortex

   Herber, Pratt, Shea, Villeda and Giocomo · Nature Communications · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“In aged grid cells, we observed impaired stabilization of context-specific spatial firing, correlated with spatial memory deficits.”
   2. Unchecked“Additionally, aged grid networks shifted firing patterns often, but with poor alignment to context changes.”
   3. Unchecked“In these same mice, we identified 458 genes differentially expressed with age in MEC, 61 of which had expression correlated with spatial coding quality.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A map of spatial navigation for neuroscience

   Parra-Barrero, Vijayabaskaran, Seabrook, Wiskott and Cheng · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“This has led the latter to under-appreciate the relevance and complexity of spatial behavior, and to focus too narrowly on characterizing neural representations of space-disconnected from the computations these representations are meant to enable.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map

   Jeffery · Learning & Behavior · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“The emerging picture is that instead of being a single, unified construct, the map is a mosaic of fragments that are heterogeneous, variably metric, multiply scaled, and sometimes laid on top of each other.”
   2. Unchecked“Important organizing factors within and between fragments include boundaries, context, compass direction, and gravity.”
   3. Unchecked“The map functions not to provide a comprehensive and precise rendering of the environment but rather to support adaptive behavior, tailored to the species and situation.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Action information is integrated into entorhinal representations of conceptual space and is reflected in eye movements

   Eperon, Doeller, Theves and Bottini · PLoS Biology · 2026

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   1. Unchecked“This action representation was not explained by other properties of the task space, such as link distance between the states or reaction times.”

6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Can parametric statistical methods be trusted for fMRI based group studies?

   Anders, Thomas and Hans · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“We conduct a number of follow up analyses and investigations that suggest the cause of the invalid cluster inferences is spatial auto correlation functions that do not follow the assumed Gaussian shape.”
   2. Unchecked“By comparison, the non-parametric permutation test, which is based on a small number of assumptions, is found to produce valid results for voxel as well as cluster wise inference.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Sense of Place: Grid Cells in the Brain and the Transcendental Number e

   Xue-Xin, Jason and Vijay · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“We propose that the grid system minimizes the number of neurons required to encode location with a given resolution.”