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8 claims from 5 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

   Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

   Lever, Burton, Jeewajee, O'Keefe and Burgess · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009

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   1. Unchecked“Here, we report the existence of cells fulfilling this description in recordings from the subiculum of freely moving rats.”

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

   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

   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…