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4 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

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

   Fuhs and Touretzky · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006

   The authors describe a locally connected spin glass network that spontaneously forms hexagonal grids of activity, can encode position and perform path integration, and supports an attractor-network account of entorhinal cortex.

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   1. UncheckedIn the authors' simulation, the model cells' spatial firing fields closely resemble those of grid cells recorded in rat dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex.“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.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells

   Yoon, Buice, Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Fiete · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

   Recording many rat grid cells at once, the authors found their joint activity is low-dimensional and robust, which they say supports the idea that the brain computes using continuous attractors.

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   1. UncheckedIn rat grid cells with similar spatial periods, joint activity lay close to a two-dimensional manifold, differing only along two response dimensions.“Among grid cells with similar spatial periods, the population activity was confined to lie close to a two-dimensional (2D) manifold: grid cells differed only along two dimensions of their responses and otherwise were nearly identical.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A geometric attractor mechanism for self-organization of entorhinal grid modules

   Kang and Balasubramanian · eLife · 2019

   The authors propose that grid-cell modules in the entorhinal cortex self-organise through a gradient of inhibition distance plus excitatory interactions along the dorso-ventral axis, giving discrete modules.

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   1. UncheckedIn this model, fixed scale ratios between successive grid modules follow from geometry of triangular grids and fall within the observed range.“Moreover, constant scale ratios between successive modules arise through geometric relationships between triangular grids and have values that fall within the observed range.”