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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Membrane potential dynamics of grid cells

   Domnisoru, Kinkhabwala and Tank · Nature · 2013

   Whole-cell recordings from grid cells in mice running in virtual reality favour slow depolarizing ramps over theta amplitude modulation as the mechanism producing grid firing fields.

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   1. UncheckedIn mice running along virtual-reality tracks, grid cells showed large, reproducible slow rises in membrane potential tightly matched to their firing fields.“Grid cells had large and reproducible ramps of membrane potential depolarization that were the characteristic signature tightly correlated with firing fields.”
   2. UncheckedIn mice running on virtual-reality tracks, grid cells showed theta oscillations in their membrane potential that influenced when they fired spikes.“Grid cells also demonstrated intracellular theta oscillations that influenced their spike timing.”
   3. UncheckedIn mouse grid cells, theta amplitude changes in membrane potential did not behave as they would if they set where the cells' firing fields lie.“However, the properties of theta amplitude modulations were not consistent with the view that they determine firing field locations.”