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6 claims from 4 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

   Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

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

   Recordings of entorhinal grid cells found that their spatial scales change in step with changes to a familiar environment's size and shape, showing an influence of experience.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cell scale appears to depend on both the brain's internal tracking of movement and learned links to the surrounding environment.“Thus grid scale reflects an interaction between intrinsic, path-integrative calculation of location and learned associations to the external environment.”

3. 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.”

4. 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.”