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18 claims from 10 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Representation of Geometric Borders in the Entorhinal Cortex

   Solstad, Boccara, Kropff, Moser and Moser · Science · 2008

   The authors report a type of entorhinal cell that fires when an animal is near the borders of its surroundings, and describe where these cells are found and what they may do.

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   1. UncheckedBorder cells, which fire near environmental edges, make up under 10% of local cells but occur in all medial entorhinal layers and the parasubiculum.“Border cells are relatively sparse, making up less than 10% of the local cell population, but can be found in all layers of the medial entorhinal cortex as well as the adjacent parasubiculum, often intermingled with head-direction cells and grid cells.”
   2. UncheckedEntorhinal 'border cells' keep firing near a specific edge of an enclosure even when it is stretched, or changed in size, shape or room.“The orientation-specific edge-apposing activity of these “border cells” is maintained when the environment is stretched and during testing in enclosures of different size and shape in different rooms.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Development of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Preweanling Rats

   Wills, Cacucci, Burgess and O'Keefe · Science · 2010

   Two studies recorded spatial activity in the hippocampal formation and entorhinal cortex of rat pups as they first explored, finding early forms of place, head direction and grid cells.

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   1. UncheckedSpatial brain-cell activity in rat pups at their first excursions from the nest suggests strong innate components of spatial perception.“A neural representation of external space at this early time points to strong innate components for perception of space.”
   2. UncheckedEarly spatial brain activity in rat pups is presented as experimental support for Kant's idea that space is an inborn faculty of the mind.“These findings provide experimental support for Kant's 200-year-old concept of space as an a priori faculty of the mind.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Environmental Boundaries as an Error Correction Mechanism for Grid Cells

   Hardcastle, Ganguli and Giocomo · Neuron · 2015

   Recording grid cells in rodents on long open-arena trajectories, the authors found drift error that boundaries reset, suggesting border cells correct errors and that landmarks keep grid patterns stable.

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   1. UncheckedIn rodents crossing an open arena, grid cell firing error grew with the time and distance since the animal last met a boundary.“We found that error accumulates relative to time and distance traveled since the animal last encountered a boundary.”
   2. UncheckedIn rodents, grid-cell errors are corrected in a direction-dependent way on meeting a boundary, suggesting border cells help correct them.“Further, interactions with boundaries yield direction-dependent error correction, suggesting that border cells serve as a neural substrate for error correction.”
   3. UncheckedIn rodents crossing an open arena, the error that builds up in grid cell firing reflects the whole grid pattern drifting coherently.“This error reflects coherent drift in the grid pattern.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum

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

   In rats, grid cells were found to be abundant in pre- and parasubiculum as well as medial entorhinal cortex, alongside head-direction and border cells, which constrains how such cells might arise.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, the share of grid cells in the pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to that in the deep layers of the medial entorhinal cortex.“The proportion of grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to deep layers of MEC.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, grid cells, first found in medial entorhinal cortex, were also abundant in two neighbouring brain regions, the pre- and parasubiculum.“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. UncheckedIn rats, grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum showed a less symmetrical grid pattern and a weaker link to theta rhythm, especially in presubiculum.“The symmetry of the grid pattern and its relationship to the theta rhythm were weaker, especially in presubiculum.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Object-vector coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

   Høydal, Skytøen, Andersson, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2019

   Recording from mice, the study reports that many medial entorhinal cortex neurons are 'object-vector cells' that code distance and direction from objects, suggesting vector coding is a main form of position coding there.

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   1. UncheckedIn mice, many neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex fire when the animal is at particular distances and directions from discrete objects.“Here we show that a large fraction of medial entorhinal cortex neurons fire specifically when mice are at given distances and directions from spatially confined objects.”
   2. UncheckedIn mice, medial entorhinal cortex 'object-vector cells' respond alike to different discrete objects, wherever placed, and to shapes from points to extended surfaces.“These 'object-vector cells' are tuned equally to a spectrum of discrete objects, irrespective of their location in the test arena, as well as to a broad range of dimensions and shapes, from point-like objects to extended surfaces.”

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural networks to perform spatial localization

   Cueva and Wei · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

   The authors trained recurrent neural networks to navigate 2D arenas from velocity inputs, and report that units resembling entorhinal grid cells, border cells and band-like cells emerged.

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   1. UncheckedRecurrent neural networks trained to navigate 2D arenas from velocity inputs developed grid-like, border-like and band-like spatial response patterns.“Surprisingly, we find that grid-like spatial response patterns emerge in trained networks, along with units that exhibit other spatial correlates, including border cells and band-like cells.”

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A novel somatosensory spatial navigation system outside the hippocampal formation

   Long and Zhang · Cell Research · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“To our surprise, we were able to detect the full complement of spatially selective firing patterns similar to that reported in the hippocampal-entorhinal network, namely, place cells, head direction cells, boundary vector/border cells, grid cells and conjunc…

10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Visual landmarks sharpen grid cell metric and confer context specificity to neurons of the medial entorhinal cortex

    Pérez‐Escobar, Kornienko, Latuske, Kohler and Allen · eLife · 2016

    The study tested whether visual information, including nonmetric contextual cues, regulates the firing of neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex, and reports changes in grid, border and other cells.

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    1. UncheckedTaking away visual landmarks caused a profound impairment in the regular, periodic firing pattern of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex.“Removal of visual landmarks caused a profound impairment in grid cell periodicity.”
    2. UncheckedChanging visual cues that were not about distance or shape, while keeping a 1D environment's boundaries, altered the firing rates of grid cells.“Manipulations of nonmetric visual cues that left the boundaries of a 1D environment in place caused rate changes in grid cells.”