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6 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Environmental Boundaries as an Error Correction Mechanism for Grid Cells

   Hardcastle, Ganguli and Giocomo · Neuron · 2015

   Recording grid cells in rodents on long open-arena trajectories, the authors found drift error that boundaries reset, suggesting border cells correct errors and that landmarks keep grid patterns stable.

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   1. UncheckedIn rodents, grid-cell errors are corrected in a direction-dependent way on meeting a boundary, suggesting border cells help correct them.“Further, interactions with boundaries yield direction-dependent error correction, suggesting that border cells serve as a neural substrate for error correction.”
   2. UncheckedIn rodents crossing an open arena, grid cell firing error grew with the time and distance since the animal last met a boundary.“We found that error accumulates relative to time and distance traveled since the animal last encountered a boundary.”
   3. UncheckedIn rodents crossing an open arena, the error that builds up in grid cell firing reflects the whole grid pattern drifting coherently.“This error reflects coherent drift in the grid pattern.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cell symmetry is shaped by environmental geometry

   Krupic, Bauža, Burton, Barry and O'Keefe · Nature · 2015

   Recording grid cells in enclosures of different shapes, the authors report that environmental geometry strongly and lastingly affects grid orientation, scale, symmetry and homogeneity.

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   1. UncheckedIn strongly polarised enclosures such as trapezoids, grid cells' hexagonal firing pattern stays distorted, becoming more elliptical and less uniform.“Furthermore, the hexagonal grid symmetry is permanently broken in highly polarized environments such as trapezoids, the pattern being more elliptical and less homogeneous.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper states that grid cell firing is more local than thought, so it cannot serve as a universal spatial metric in every environment.“Notably, grid cell activity is more local than previously thought and as a consequence cannot provide a universal spatial metric in all environments.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Shearing-induced asymmetry in entorhinal grid cells

   Stensola, Stensola, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2015

   Grid cell patterns in square enclosures are rotated relative to the walls and elliptically distorted; the authors suggest shear forces from anchoring to geometric reference points explain this.

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   1. UncheckedMathematically undoing the elliptical stretching of grid cell patterns by a shearing transformation removes their rotational offset from the walls.“Reversing the ellipticity analytically by a shearing transformation removes the angular offset.”