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15 claims from 8 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

   Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2005

   The paper reports a map of space in the dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex, built from grid cells, which may be part of a path-integration-based map of the environment.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cells in a rat brain region fire whenever the animal is at any corner of a regular lattice of equilateral triangles covering its environment.“Its key unit is the 'grid cell', which is activated whenever the animal's position coincides with any vertex of a regular grid of equilateral triangles spanning the surface of the environment.”
   2. UncheckedNeighbouring grid cells in the entorhinal cortex share the same grid orientation and spacing, but their grids are offset from one another.“Grids of neighbouring cells share a common orientation and spacing, but their vertex locations (their phases) differ.”
   3. UncheckedIn the paper's recordings, grid cells in the entorhinal cortex have wider-spaced and larger firing fields further down the dorsal-to-ventral axis.“The spacing and size of individual fields increase from dorsal to ventral dMEC.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

   Lever, Burton, Jeewajee, O'Keefe and Burgess · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009

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   1. Unchecked“Here, we report the existence of cells fulfilling this description in recordings from the subiculum of freely moving rats.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents

   Banino, Barry, Uría et al. · Nature · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Furthermore, grid-like representations enabled agents to conduct shortcut behaviours reminiscent of those performed by mammals.”
   2. Unchecked“Our findings show that emergent grid-like representations furnish agents with a Euclidean spatial metric and associated vector operations, providing a foundation for proficient navigation.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A Spin Glass Model of Path Integration in Rat Medial Entorhinal Cortex

   Fuhs and Touretzky · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006

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   1. Unchecked“The spatial firing fields of the simulated cells closely resemble those of dMEC cells.”
   2. Unchecked“Introducing an asymmetry in the model allows the activity bumps to be shifted in any direction, at a rate proportional to velocity, to achieve path integration.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Environmental Boundaries as an Error Correction Mechanism for Grid Cells

   Hardcastle, Ganguli and Giocomo · Neuron · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“Further, interactions with boundaries yield direction-dependent error correction, suggesting that border cells serve as a neural substrate for error correction.”
   2. Unchecked“We found that error accumulates relative to time and distance traveled since the animal last encountered a boundary.”
   3. Unchecked“This error reflects coherent drift in the grid pattern.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

   Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Jeffery · Nature Neuroscience · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“Thus grid scale reflects an interaction between intrinsic, path-integrative calculation of location and learned associations to the external environment.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   How environment and self‐motion combine in neural representations of space

   Evans, Bičanski, Bush and Burgess · The Journal of Physiology · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“For head direction cells, direct projections from egocentric sensory representations of distal cues can help to correct cumulative errors.”
   2. Unchecked“However, the allocentric code of boundary vector cells and place cells requires consistent head‐direction information in order to translate the sensory signal of egocentric boundary distance into allocentric boundary vector cell firing, suggesting that the d…

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Locations in the Neocortex: A Theory of Sensorimotor Object Recognition Using Cortical Grid Cells

   Lewis, Purdy, Ahmad and Hawkins · Frontiers in Neural Circuits · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Simulations show that the model can learn hundreds of objects even when object features alone are insufficient for disambiguation.”