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16 claims from 8 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

   Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2005

   The paper reports a map of space in the dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex, built from grid cells, which may be part of a path-integration-based map of the environment.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cells in a rat brain region fire whenever the animal is at any corner of a regular lattice of equilateral triangles covering its environment.“Its key unit is the 'grid cell', which is activated whenever the animal's position coincides with any vertex of a regular grid of equilateral triangles spanning the surface of the environment.”
   2. UncheckedNeighbouring grid cells in the entorhinal cortex share the same grid orientation and spacing, but their grids are offset from one another.“Grids of neighbouring cells share a common orientation and spacing, but their vertex locations (their phases) differ.”
   3. UncheckedIn the paper's recordings, grid cells in the entorhinal cortex have wider-spaced and larger firing fields further down the dorsal-to-ventral axis.“The spacing and size of individual fields increase from dorsal to ventral dMEC.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Perineuronal nets stabilize the grid cell network

   Christensen, Lensjø, Lepperød et al. · Nature Communications · 2021

   The paper reports that removing perineuronal nets lowers inhibitory activity and destabilises grid cell maps, with knock-on distortion of hippocampal spatial representations, suggesting the nets stabilise the grid network.

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   1. UncheckedIn animals with disrupted perineuronal nets, a novel arena scrambled grid cell timing relationships and the stored map of a familiar arena.“Furthermore, in animals with disrupted PNNs, exposure to a novel arena corrupted the spatiotemporal relationships within grid cell modules, and the stored representations of a familiar arena.”
   2. Unchecked“Finally, we show that PNN removal in entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The effects of changes in the environment on the spatial firing of hippocampal complex-spike cells

   Muller and Kubie · Journal of Neuroscience · 1987

   Recording hippocampal place cells in a cylinder, the authors varied the cue card, wall size and shape, floor plan and added barriers, and measured how each change altered the cells' firing fields.

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   1. UncheckedWhen the cue card on the wall was rotated, the firing fields of individual hippocampal place cells rotated by equal amounts.“Rotating the cue card produced equal rotations of the firing fields of single cells.”
   2. Unchecked“When the standard (small) cylinder was scaled up in diameter and height by a factor of 2, the firing fields of 36% of the cells observed in both cylinders also scaled, in the sense that the field stayed at the same angular position and at the same relative r…

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

   Aronov, Nevers and Tank · Nature · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“We found neural representation of the entire behavioural task, including activity that formed discrete firing fields at particular sound frequencies.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells require excitatory drive from the hippocampus

   Bonnevie, Dunn, Fyhn et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“First, hippocampal inactivation gradually and selectively extinguished the grid pattern.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment

   Derdikman, Whitlock, Tsao et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2009

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   1. Unchecked“We saw similar discontinuities among place cells in the hippocampus.”
   2. Unchecked“No fragmentation was observed when the rats followed similar trajectories in the absence of internal walls, implying that stereotypic behavior alone cannot explain the compartmentalization.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Map Making: Constructing, Combining, and Inferring on Abstract Cognitive Maps

   Park, Miller, Nili, Ranganath and Boorman · Neuron · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“Although one dimension was behaviorally relevant, multivariate activity patterns in HC, EC, and vmPFC/mOFC were linearly related to the Euclidean distance between people in the mentally reconstructed 2D space.”
   2. Unchecked“We found that both behavior and neural activity in EC and vmPFC/mOFC reflected the Euclidean distance to the retrieved hub, which was reinstated in HC.”

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map

   Jeffery · Learning & Behavior · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“The emerging picture is that instead of being a single, unified construct, the map is a mosaic of fragments that are heterogeneous, variably metric, multiply scaled, and sometimes laid on top of each other.”
   2. Unchecked“Important organizing factors within and between fragments include boundaries, context, compass direction, and gravity.”
   3. Unchecked“The map functions not to provide a comprehensive and precise rendering of the environment but rather to support adaptive behavior, tailored to the species and situation.”