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10 claims from 6 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Head-direction cells recorded from the postsubiculum in freely moving rats. I. Description and quantitative analysis

   Taube, Muller and Ranck · Journal of Neuroscience · 1990

   Recording from rat postsubiculum neurons in a cylinder, the authors identified head-direction cells that fire according to the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, regardless of its location or behaviour.

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   1. Unchecked“Approximately 26% of the cells were classified as head-direction cells because they discharged as a function of the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, independent of the animal's behavior, location, or trunk position.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, each head-direction cell's firing rate, plotted against head direction, was adequately described by a triangular function.“Plots of firing rate versus head direction showed that each firing-rate/head-direction function was adequately described by a triangular function.”
   3. UncheckedIn 24 head-direction cells from 7 rats, the directions that made cells fire most were spread evenly across the full 360-degree circle.“Results from 24 head-direction cells in 7 animals showed an equal distribution of preferred firing directions over a 360 degrees angle.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Conjunctive Representation of Position, Direction, and Velocity in Entorhinal Cortex

   Sargolini, Fyhn, Hafting et al. · Science · 2006

   Recording from each principal cell layer of rat medial entorhinal cortex, the authors found grid, head-direction and conjunctive cells, all modulated by running speed, which may help update grid coordinates during navigation.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, layer II of the medial entorhinal cortex was mostly grid cells, while deeper layers mixed grid, head-direction and conjunctive cells.“Whereas layer II was predominated by grid cells, grid cells colocalized with head-direction cells and conjunctive grid × head-direction cells in the deeper layers.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat

   Langston, Ainge, Couey et al. · Science · 2010

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   1. Unchecked“A neural representation of external space at this early time points to strong innate components for perception of space.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Object-vector coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

   Høydal, Skytøen, Andersson, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Here we show that a large fraction of medial entorhinal cortex neurons fire specifically when mice are at given distances and directions from spatially confined objects.”
   2. Unchecked“These 'object-vector cells' are tuned equally to a spectrum of discrete objects, irrespective of their location in the test arena, as well as to a broad range of dimensions and shapes, from point-like objects to extended surfaces.”

5. 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…

6. 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…