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2 claims from 1 paper

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Independence of landmark and self-motion-guided navigation: a different role for grid cells

   Poucet, Sargolini, Song, Hangya, Fox and Muller · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2013

   A review that questions whether grid cells give place cells a distance metric, and proposes that information flow in the navigation system differs between light and dark conditions.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors propose that grid cells follow landmarks and place cells in the light, but are driven by self-motion cues and steer place cells in the dark.“In this view, their activity in the light is predominantly shaped by landmarks rather than self-motion information, and so follows place cell activity; in the dark, their activity is determined by self-motion cues and controls place cell activity.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper proposes that, in the light, place cell activity depends on non-grid cells in the ventral part of medial entorhinal cortex.“A corollary is that place cell activity in the light depends on non-grid cells in ventral medial entorhinal cortex.”