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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Spatial Periodicity of Grid Cells Is Not Sustained During Reduced Theta Oscillations

   Koenig, Linder, Leutgeb and Leutgeb · Science · 2011

   The paper reports that inhibiting the medial septum, which reduces theta oscillations, abolished grid cell firing but left most hippocampal place cell firing intact.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cell firing vanished when the medial septum was inhibited, while most hippocampal place cells kept firing in their usual way.“Grid cell firing vanished after medial septum inhibition, while most hippocampal place cell firing was retained.”