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27 claims from 16 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

   Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2005

   The paper reports a map of space in the dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex, built from grid cells, which may be part of a path-integration-based map of the environment.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cells in a rat brain region fire whenever the animal is at any corner of a regular lattice of equilateral triangles covering its environment.“Its key unit is the 'grid cell', which is activated whenever the animal's position coincides with any vertex of a regular grid of equilateral triangles spanning the surface of the environment.”
   2. UncheckedNeighbouring grid cells in the entorhinal cortex share the same grid orientation and spacing, but their grids are offset from one another.“Grids of neighbouring cells share a common orientation and spacing, but their vertex locations (their phases) differ.”
   3. UncheckedIn the paper's recordings, grid cells in the entorhinal cortex have wider-spaced and larger firing fields further down the dorsal-to-ventral axis.“The spacing and size of individual fields increase from dorsal to ventral dMEC.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Representation of Geometric Borders in the Entorhinal Cortex

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

   The paper reports a cell type in the entorhinal cortex, called border cells, that fires when an animal is near the borders of its environment, and suggests these cells help anchor spatial maps.

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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. Unchecked“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.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Perineuronal nets stabilize the grid cell network

   Christensen, Lensjø, Lepperød et al. · Nature Communications · 2021

   The paper reports that removing perineuronal nets lowers inhibitory activity and destabilises grid cell maps, with knock-on distortion of hippocampal spatial representations, suggesting the nets stabilise the grid network.

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   1. UncheckedIn animals with disrupted perineuronal nets, a novel arena scrambled grid cell timing relationships and the stored map of a familiar arena.“Furthermore, in animals with disrupted PNNs, exposure to a novel arena corrupted the spatiotemporal relationships within grid cell modules, and the stored representations of a familiar arena.”
   2. Unchecked“Finally, we show that PNN removal in entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network

   Doeller, Barry and Burgess · Nature · 2010

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   1. Unchecked“We then looked for this signal as participants explored a virtual reality environment, mimicking the rats' foraging task: fMRI activation and adaptation showing a speed-modulated six-fold rotational symmetry in running direction.”
   2. Unchecked“The signal was found in a network of entorhinal/subicular, posterior and medial parietal, lateral temporal and medial prefrontal areas.”
   3. Unchecked“The effect was strongest in right entorhinal cortex, and the coherence of the directional signal across entorhinal cortex correlated with spatial memory performance.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents

   Banino, Barry, Uría et al. · Nature · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Furthermore, grid-like representations enabled agents to conduct shortcut behaviours reminiscent of those performed by mammals.”
   2. Unchecked“Our findings show that emergent grid-like representations furnish agents with a Euclidean spatial metric and associated vector operations, providing a foundation for proficient navigation.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat

   Langston, Ainge, Couey et al. · Science · 2010

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   1. Unchecked“A neural representation of external space at this early time points to strong innate components for perception of space.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

   Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Jeffery · Nature Neuroscience · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“Thus grid scale reflects an interaction between intrinsic, path-integrative calculation of location and learned associations to the external environment.”

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment

   Derdikman, Whitlock, Tsao et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2009

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   1. Unchecked“We saw similar discontinuities among place cells in the hippocampus.”
   2. Unchecked“No fragmentation was observed when the rats followed similar trajectories in the absence of internal walls, implying that stereotypic behavior alone cannot explain the compartmentalization.”

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Map Making: Constructing, Combining, and Inferring on Abstract Cognitive Maps

   Park, Miller, Nili, Ranganath and Boorman · Neuron · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“Although one dimension was behaviorally relevant, multivariate activity patterns in HC, EC, and vmPFC/mOFC were linearly related to the Euclidean distance between people in the mentally reconstructed 2D space.”
   2. Unchecked“We found that both behavior and neural activity in EC and vmPFC/mOFC reflected the Euclidean distance to the retrieved hub, which was reinstated in HC.”

10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Shearing-induced asymmetry in entorhinal grid cells

    Stensola, Stensola, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Reversing the ellipticity analytically by a shearing transformation removes the angular offset.”

11. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Episodic memory: Neuronal codes for what, where, and when

    Sugar and Moser · Hippocampus · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Such information originates from (a) spatially modulated neurons in medial entorhinal cortex, including grid cells, which provide a stable and universal positional metric of the environment; (b) a continuously varying signal in lateral entorhinal cortex prov…

12. 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

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    1. Unchecked“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.”

13. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation

    Bowler and Losonczy · Neuron · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We uncover distinct yet overlapping representations of task, location, and context in both MEC and LEC axons.”
    2. Unchecked“MEC transmitted highly location- and context-specific codes; LEC inputs were biased by ongoing navigational goals.”
    3. Unchecked“However, during tasks with reliable reward locations, the animals' position could be accurately decoded from either subregion.”

14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Locations in the Neocortex: A Theory of Sensorimotor Object Recognition Using Cortical Grid Cells

    Lewis, Purdy, Ahmad and Hawkins · Frontiers in Neural Circuits · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Simulations show that the model can learn hundreds of objects even when object features alone are insufficient for disambiguation.”

15. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Action information is integrated into entorhinal representations of conceptual space and is reflected in eye movements

    Eperon, Doeller, Theves and Bottini · PLoS Biology · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“This action representation was not explained by other properties of the task space, such as link distance between the states or reaction times.”

16. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The Sense of Place: Grid Cells in the Brain and the Transcendental Number e

    Xue-Xin, Jason and Vijay · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“We propose that the grid system minimizes the number of neurons required to encode location with a given resolution.”