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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid Cells Lose Coherence in Realistic Environments

   Luo, Toso, Si, Stella and Treves · IntechOpen eBooks · 2021

   Simulating a virtual rat exploring a burrow-like environment, the authors found that grid cell patterns lose long-range order and become incoherent clusters, unlike in a flat box.

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   1. UncheckedIn a simulated burrow, links between grid units may raise gridness only within a limited strength range, but the irregular geometry disrupts grid order.“Our results indicate that lateral connectivity between grid units may enhance their “gridness” within a limited strength range, but the overall effect of the irregular geometry is to disable long-range and obstruct short-range order.”
   2. UncheckedIn a simulated irregular burrow, the smooth grid-cell pattern seen in a flat box breaks into incoherent clusters of units, flexible or unstable.“What appears as a smooth continuous attractor in a flat box, kept rigid by recurrent connections, turns into an incoherent motley of unit clusters, flexible or outright unstable.”