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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Hippocampal place units in the freely moving rat: Why they fire where they fire

   O'Keefe and Conway · Experimental Brain Research · 1978

   Recording 34 place units in rat hippocampus across two environments, the authors examined how the cells' firing locations relate to controlled cues, and found some cells respond to single cues and others to combinations.

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   1. UncheckedIn this rat study, all twelve hippocampal cells tested extensively in the curtained maze had place fields tied to the experimenters' controlled cues.“All twelve units tested extensively in the controlled enclosure had place fields related to the controlled cues.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Cell type, sub-region, and layer-specific speed representation in the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

   Iwase, Kitanishi and Mizuseki · Scientific Reports · 2020

   The study compared how different cell types in rat hippocampal and entorhinal sub-regions and layers represent running speed, finding differences by cell type, pathway and theta phase.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, most speed cells in entorhinal cortex layer 2 encoded speed prospectively, while those in CA1 and layers 3 and 5 encoded it retrospectively.“Most speed cells located in entorhinal cortex layer 2 represented speed prospectively, whereas those in the CA1 and entorhinal cortex layers 3 and 5 represented speed retrospectively.”