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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The effects of changes in the environment on the spatial firing of hippocampal complex-spike cells

   Muller and Kubie · Journal of Neuroscience · 1987

   Recording hippocampal place cells in a cylinder, the authors varied the cue card, wall size and shape, floor plan and added barriers, and measured how each change altered the cells' firing fields.

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   1. UncheckedWhen the cue card on the wall was rotated, the firing fields of individual hippocampal place cells rotated by equal amounts.“Rotating the cue card produced equal rotations of the firing fields of single cells.”
   2. UncheckedWhen a recording cylinder was doubled in diameter and height, 36% of place cells seen in both kept their firing field at the same angle and relative radial position.“When the standard (small) cylinder was scaled up in diameter and height by a factor of 2, the firing fields of 36% of the cells observed in both cylinders also scaled, in the sense that the field stayed at the same angular position and at the same relative radial position.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Head-direction cells recorded from the postsubiculum in freely moving rats. II. Effects of environmental manipulations

   Taube, Muller and Ranck · Journal of Neuroscience · 1990

   Recording head-direction cells in rats' postsubiculum, the authors tested how changes to the environment, such as moving or removing a cue card or changing the enclosure's shape, affect their firing.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, turning a white cue card inside a cylinder turned the preferred direction of head-direction cells by about the same amount, with firing otherwise little changed.“Rotation of the cue card produced near-equal rotation in the preferred firing direction of head-direction cells, with minimal changes in peak firing rate, directional firing range, or asymmetry of the firing-rate/head- direction function.”
   2. UncheckedIn two occasions with pairs of head-direction cells recorded together, both cells' preferred directions rotated by the same amount after each manipulation.“The rotation of the preferred firing direction for one cell was the same as the rotation of the preferred direction for the second cell after each environmental manipulation.”