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31 claims from 18 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Representation of Geometric Borders in the Entorhinal Cortex

   Solstad, Boccara, Kropff, Moser and Moser · Science · 2008

   The paper reports a cell type in the entorhinal cortex, called border cells, that fires when an animal is near the borders of its environment, and suggests these cells help anchor spatial maps.

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   1. UncheckedBorder cells, which fire near environmental edges, make up under 10% of local cells but occur in all medial entorhinal layers and the parasubiculum.“Border cells are relatively sparse, making up less than 10% of the local cell population, but can be found in all layers of the medial entorhinal cortex as well as the adjacent parasubiculum, often intermingled with head-direction cells and grid cells.”
   2. Unchecked“The orientation-specific edge-apposing activity of these “border cells” is maintained when the environment is stretched and during testing in enclosures of different size and shape in different rooms.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The entorhinal grid map is discretized

   Stensola, Stensola, Solstad, Frøland, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2012

   Recording many grid cells in single rats, the authors report that the entorhinal grid map is divided into a few discrete modules that can respond independently to changes in environment geometry.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, recordings from up to 186 grid cells show they cluster into a few modules differing in scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta modulation.“Here we show with recordings from up to 186 grid cells in individual rats that grid cells cluster into a small number of layer-spanning anatomically overlapping modules with distinct scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta-frequency modulation.”
   2. Unchecked“These modules can respond independently to changes in the geometry of the environment.”

3. 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.”

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

   Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex

   Fyhn, Hafting, Treves, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“Grid fields of co-localized medial entorhinal cortex cells move and rotate in concert during this realignment.”

6. 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.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing

   Burgess, Barry and O'Keefe · Hippocampus · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“Specifically, dendritic subunits of layer II medial entorhinal stellate cells provide multiple linear interference patterns along different directions, with their product determining the firing of the cell.”

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A Spin Glass Model of Path Integration in Rat Medial Entorhinal Cortex

   Fuhs and Touretzky · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006

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   1. Unchecked“The spatial firing fields of the simulated cells closely resemble those of dMEC cells.”
   2. Unchecked“Introducing an asymmetry in the model allows the activity bumps to be shifted in any direction, at a rate proportional to velocity, to achieve path integration.”

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum

   Boccara, Sargolini, Thoresen et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2010

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   1. Unchecked“The proportion of grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to deep layers of MEC.”
   2. Unchecked“In rats, we found that one of the cell types, the grid cell, was abundant not only in medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), where it was first reported, but also in pre- and parasubiculum.”
   3. Unchecked“The symmetry of the grid pattern and its relationship to the theta rhythm were weaker, especially in presubiculum.”

10. 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.”

11. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Influence of boundary removal on the spatial representations of the medial entorhinal cortex

    Savelli, Yoganarasimha and Knierim · Hippocampus · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“A number of cells that resembled classic hippocampal place cells in the small box were revealed to be grid cells in the larger box.”
    2. Unchecked“Remapping of the spatial response in the area corresponding to the small box after the removal of its walls was prominent in most spatially modulated cells.”

12. 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.”

13. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Environmental Boundaries as an Error Correction Mechanism for Grid Cells

    Hardcastle, Ganguli and Giocomo · Neuron · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“We found that error accumulates relative to time and distance traveled since the animal last encountered a boundary.”
    2. Unchecked“This error reflects coherent drift in the grid pattern.”
    3. Unchecked“Further, interactions with boundaries yield direction-dependent error correction, suggesting that border cells serve as a neural substrate for error correction.”

14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Connecting multiple spatial scales to decode the population activity of grid cells

    Stemmler, Mathis and Herz · Science Advances · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Reading the neural code for space: discrete scales of grid-cell activity enable goal-directed navigation and localization.”

15. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Characterizing Speed Cells in the Rat Hippocampus

    Góis and Tort · Cell Reports · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Moreover, their speed-correlated firing occurs within theta cycles, independently of theta frequency.”

16. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation

    Bowler and Losonczy · Neuron · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We uncover distinct yet overlapping representations of task, location, and context in both MEC and LEC axons.”
    2. Unchecked“MEC transmitted highly location- and context-specific codes; LEC inputs were biased by ongoing navigational goals.”
    3. Unchecked“However, during tasks with reliable reward locations, the animals' position could be accurately decoded from either subregion.”

17. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Cell type, sub-region, and layer-specific speed representation in the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

    Iwase, Kitanishi and Mizuseki · Scientific Reports · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Most speed cells located in entorhinal cortex layer 2 represented speed prospectively, whereas those in the CA1 and entorhinal cortex layers 3 and 5 represented speed retrospectively.”

18. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Spatial coding dysfunction and network instability in the aging medial entorhinal cortex

    Herber, Pratt, Shea, Villeda and Giocomo · Nature Communications · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“In aged grid cells, we observed impaired stabilization of context-specific spatial firing, correlated with spatial memory deficits.”
    2. Unchecked“Additionally, aged grid networks shifted firing patterns often, but with poor alignment to context changes.”
    3. Unchecked“In these same mice, we identified 458 genes differentially expressed with age in MEC, 61 of which had expression correlated with spatial coding quality.”