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55 claims from 34 papers, showing 21–34 of 34

1. 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.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells

   Yoon, Buice, Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Fiete · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“Among grid cells with similar spatial periods, the population activity was confined to lie close to a two-dimensional (2D) manifold: grid cells differed only along two dimensions of their responses and otherwise were nearly identical.”

3. 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.”

4. 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…

5. 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.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Extracting grid cell characteristics from place cell inputs using non-negative principal component analysis

   Dordek, Soudry, Meir and Derdikman · eLife · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Both numerical results and analytic considerations indicate that if the components of the feedforward neural network are non-negative, the output converges to a hexagonal lattice.”
   2. Unchecked“Without the non-negativity constraint, the output converges to a square lattice.”
   3. Unchecked“Consistent with experiments, grid spacing ratio between the first two consecutive modules is −1.4.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Connecting multiple spatial scales to decode the population activity of grid cells

   Stemmler, Mathis and Herz · Science Advances · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“Reading the neural code for space: discrete scales of grid-cell activity enable goal-directed navigation and localization.”

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A novel somatosensory spatial navigation system outside the hippocampal formation

   Long and Zhang · Cell Research · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“To our surprise, we were able to detect the full complement of spatially selective firing patterns similar to that reported in the hippocampal-entorhinal network, namely, place cells, head direction cells, boundary vector/border cells, grid cells and conjunc…

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Characterizing Speed Cells in the Rat Hippocampus

   Góis and Tort · Cell Reports · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Moreover, their speed-correlated firing occurs within theta cycles, independently of theta frequency.”

10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Framing of grid cells within and beyond navigation boundaries

    Savelli, Luck and Knierim · eLife · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Although the local, geometric frame of reference often exerted the strongest control over the grids, the remote cues demonstrated a consistent, sometimes dominant, countervailing influence.”

11. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    How environment and self‐motion combine in neural representations of space

    Evans, Bičanski, Bush and Burgess · The Journal of Physiology · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“For head direction cells, direct projections from egocentric sensory representations of distal cues can help to correct cumulative errors.”
    2. Unchecked“However, the allocentric code of boundary vector cells and place cells requires consistent head‐direction information in order to translate the sensory signal of egocentric boundary distance into allocentric boundary vector cell firing, suggesting that the d…

12. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Spatial coding dysfunction and network instability in the aging medial entorhinal cortex

    Herber, Pratt, Shea, Villeda and Giocomo · Nature Communications · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“In aged grid cells, we observed impaired stabilization of context-specific spatial firing, correlated with spatial memory deficits.”
    2. Unchecked“Additionally, aged grid networks shifted firing patterns often, but with poor alignment to context changes.”
    3. Unchecked“In these same mice, we identified 458 genes differentially expressed with age in MEC, 61 of which had expression correlated with spatial coding quality.”

13. Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation

    Improved Navigation Performance Through Memory Triggering Maps: A Neurocartographic Approach

    Dickmann, Keil, Korte et al. · KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“It seems likely that the activity of grid cells can be stabilized simply by map symbols that are perceived when reading a map.”

14. 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.”