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5 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The entorhinal grid map is discretized

   Stensola, Stensola, Solstad, Frøland, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2012

   Recording many grid cells in single rats, the authors report that the entorhinal grid map is divided into a few discrete modules that can respond independently to changes in environment geometry.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, recordings from up to 186 grid cells show they cluster into a few modules differing in scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta modulation.“Here we show with recordings from up to 186 grid cells in individual rats that grid cells cluster into a small number of layer-spanning anatomically overlapping modules with distinct scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta-frequency modulation.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, separate groups of grid cells (modules) can each respond independently when the shape of the surrounding environment changes.“These modules can respond independently to changes in the geometry of the environment.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   From grid cells to place cells: A mathematical model

   Solstad, Moser and Einevoll · Hippocampus · 2006

   The authors propose a model in which hippocampal place fields arise from weighted linear summation of entorhinal grid-cell inputs, and they explore which input arrangements give single or multiple fields.

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   1. UncheckedIn a model, a single place field can form by summing 10–50 grid cells with similar phases, varied orientations and plausible spacings.“Single confined place fields could be formed by summing input from a modest number (10–50) of grid cells with relatively similar grid phases, diverse grid orientations, and a biologically plausible range of grid spacings.”
   2. UncheckedIn this model, when grid-cell inputs differed more in spatial phase, simulated place cells formed several irregularly spaced firing fields rather than one.“When the spatial phase variation in the grid‐cell input was higher, multiple, and irregularly spaced firing fields were formed.”

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.”