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6 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Representation of Geometric Borders in the Entorhinal Cortex

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

   The authors report a type of entorhinal cell that fires when an animal is near the borders of its surroundings, and describe where these cells are found and what they may do.

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   1. UncheckedEntorhinal 'border cells' keep firing near a specific edge of an enclosure even when it is stretched, or changed in size, shape or room.“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. 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. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum

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

   In rats, grid cells were found to be abundant in pre- and parasubiculum as well as medial entorhinal cortex, alongside head-direction and border cells, which constrains how such cells might arise.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, the share of grid cells in the pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to that in the deep layers of the medial entorhinal cortex.“The proportion of grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to deep layers of MEC.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, grid cells, first found in medial entorhinal cortex, were also abundant in two neighbouring brain regions, the pre- and parasubiculum.“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. UncheckedIn rats, grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum showed a less symmetrical grid pattern and a weaker link to theta rhythm, especially in presubiculum.“The symmetry of the grid pattern and its relationship to the theta rhythm were weaker, especially in presubiculum.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space

   Vollan, Gardner, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2025

   In freely moving rats, grid and place cells encode position sweeps that alternate left and right across theta cycles, extend into unvisited places, and persist in REM sleep.

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   1. UncheckedThe left–right alternation of theta sweeps can be explained by an algorithm that maximises cumulative coverage of the surrounding space.“The sweep directions can be explained by an algorithm that maximizes the cumulative coverage of the surrounding manifold space.”