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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats

   Yartsev, Witter and Ulanovsky · Nature · 2011

   Recording from Egyptian fruit bats, the authors report grid cells in entorhinal cortex that lack continuous theta oscillations, which they say argues against a major class of grid-cell models.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors report finding grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex of Egyptian fruit bats that closely resemble grid cells in rodents.“Indeed, we found grid cells in bat medial entorhinal cortex that shared remarkable similarities to rodent grid cells.”
   2. UncheckedIn Egyptian fruit bats, entorhinal grid cells fired in grid patterns without continuous theta oscillations and with almost no theta modulation of spiking.“Notably, the grids existed in the absence of continuous theta-band oscillations, and with almost no theta modulation of grid-cell spiking--both of which are essential prerequisites of the oscillatory interference models.”