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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Progressive increase in grid scale from dorsal to ventral medial entorhinal cortex

   Brun, Solstad, Kjelstrup et al. · Hippocampus · 2008

   Recording from rats on an 18 m track, the authors found grid cell firing patterns at all dorsoventral levels of medial entorhinal cortex, with grid scale increasing progressively from dorsal to ventral.

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   1. UncheckedGrid spacing and field size in rat entorhinal cortex rose roughly linearly from dorsal to ventral, while the variability of each also grew substantially.“The increase in average spacing and field size was approximately linear but this relationship coincided with a substantial increase in the variability of each measure.”