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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cell firing patterns signal environmental novelty by expansion

   Barry, Ginzberg, O'Keefe and Burgess · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012

   The paper reports that grid cells expand in scale in novel environments and gradually shrink back as familiarity grows, which the authors suggest may signal novelty and familiarity.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cell firing patterns expand and become less regular in a novel environment, then return to their familiar scale as the environment becomes familiar.“Here, we show that environmental novelty causes the spatial firing patterns of grid cells to expand in scale and reduce in regularity, reverting to their familiar scale as the environment becomes familiar.”
   2. UncheckedPlace cells recorded alongside grid cells changed their firing fields in a novel environment and showed a smaller, temporary expansion.“Simultaneously recorded place cell firing fields remapped and showed a smaller, temporary expansion.”