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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Phase precession and variable spatial scaling in a periodic attractor map model of medial entorhinal grid cells with realistic after‐spike dynamics

   Navratilova, Giocomo, Fellous, Hasselmo and McNaughton · Hippocampus · 2011

   A 1D computational model combining network structure and cell-level properties accounts for grid fields and phase precession in medial entorhinal cortex, and makes predictions that experiments could test.

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   1. Unchecked“The addition of prolonged excitatory currents and simple after‐spike dynamics resembling those observed in MEC stellate cells (for which new data are presented) accounts for both phase precession and the change in scale of grid fields along the dorso‐ventral…
   2. UncheckedIn this model of entorhinal grid cells, grid spacing and grid field size can vary independently, which could offer ways to test the model experimentally.“The model also exhibits independent variation in grid spatial period and grid field size, which suggests possible experimental tests of the model.”