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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   During Running in Place, Grid Cells Integrate Elapsed Time and Distance Run

   Kraus, Brandon, Robinson, Connerney, Hasselmo and Eichenbaum · Neuron · 2015

   Recording grid cells while animals ran on a treadmill, the authors found they encoded distance run and elapsed time, suggesting grid cells integrate self-generated information when external cues are absent.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats running in place on a treadmill, grid cells mostly signalled distance and time together, and were only weakly influenced by location.“Grid cell activity was only weakly influenced by location, but most grid cells and other neurons recorded from the same electrodes strongly signaled a combination of distance and time, with some signaling only distance or time.”
   2. Unchecked“Many grid cells exhibited multiple firing fields during treadmill running, parallel to the periodic firing fields observed in open fields, suggesting a common mode of information processing.”