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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Entorhinal cortex grid cells can map to hippocampal place cells by competitive learning

   Rolls, Stringer and Elliot · Network Computation in Neural Systems · 2006

   A computational model shows that the same competitive-network idea can account for how entorhinal grid cells map onto dentate place cells, with a short-term memory trace helping to broaden place fields.

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   1. UncheckedIn a model, learning within a competitive network is an important part of how entorhinal grid cell activity can be mapped onto hippocampal place cells.“We show that the learning in the competitive network is an important part of the way in which the mapping can be achieved.”
   2. UncheckedIn a model, adding a short-term memory trace to associative learning can help produce the fairly broad place fields seen in the hippocampus.“We further show that incorporation of a short term memory trace into the associative learning can help to produce the relatively broad place fields found in the hippocampus.”