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25 claims from 16 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The effects of changes in the environment on the spatial firing of hippocampal complex-spike cells

   Muller and Kubie · Journal of Neuroscience · 1987

   Recording hippocampal place cells in a cylinder, the authors varied the cue card, wall size and shape, floor plan and added barriers, and measured how each change altered the cells' firing fields.

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   1. UncheckedWhen the cue card on the wall was rotated, the firing fields of individual hippocampal place cells rotated by equal amounts.“Rotating the cue card produced equal rotations of the firing fields of single cells.”
   2. Unchecked“When the standard (small) cylinder was scaled up in diameter and height by a factor of 2, the firing fields of 36% of the cells observed in both cylinders also scaled, in the sense that the field stayed at the same angular position and at the same relative r…

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

   Aronov, Nevers and Tank · Nature · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“We found neural representation of the entire behavioural task, including activity that formed discrete firing fields at particular sound frequencies.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex

   Fyhn, Hafting, Treves, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“Grid fields of co-localized medial entorhinal cortex cells move and rotate in concert during this realignment.”

4. 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.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing

   Burgess, Barry and O'Keefe · Hippocampus · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“Specifically, dendritic subunits of layer II medial entorhinal stellate cells provide multiple linear interference patterns along different directions, with their product determining the firing of the cell.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine: Unifying Space and Relational Memory through Generalization in the Hippocampal Formation

   Whittington, Müller, Mark et al. · Cell · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“After learning, TEM entorhinal cells display diverse properties resembling apparently bespoke spatial responses, such as grid, band, border, and object-vector cells.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Aging Navigational System

   Lester, Moffat, Wiener, Barnes and Wolbers · Neuron · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“Critically, we show 1) that navigational deficits cannot solely be explained by general deficits in learning and memory, 2) that there is no uniform decline across different navigational computations, and 3) that navigational deficits might be sensitive mark…

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Object-vector coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

   Høydal, Skytøen, Andersson, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Here we show that a large fraction of medial entorhinal cortex neurons fire specifically when mice are at given distances and directions from spatially confined objects.”
   2. Unchecked“These 'object-vector cells' are tuned equally to a spectrum of discrete objects, irrespective of their location in the test arena, as well as to a broad range of dimensions and shapes, from point-like objects to extended surfaces.”

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Influence of boundary removal on the spatial representations of the medial entorhinal cortex

   Savelli, Yoganarasimha and Knierim · Hippocampus · 2008

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   1. Unchecked“A number of cells that resembled classic hippocampal place cells in the small box were revealed to be grid cells in the larger box.”
   2. Unchecked“Remapping of the spatial response in the area corresponding to the small box after the removal of its walls was prominent in most spatially modulated cells.”

10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment

    Derdikman, Whitlock, Tsao et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“We saw similar discontinuities among place cells in the hippocampus.”
    2. Unchecked“No fragmentation was observed when the rats followed similar trajectories in the absence of internal walls, implying that stereotypic behavior alone cannot explain the compartmentalization.”

11. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Extracting grid cell characteristics from place cell inputs using non-negative principal component analysis

    Dordek, Soudry, Meir and Derdikman · eLife · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Both numerical results and analytic considerations indicate that if the components of the feedforward neural network are non-negative, the output converges to a hexagonal lattice.”
    2. Unchecked“Without the non-negativity constraint, the output converges to a square lattice.”
    3. Unchecked“Consistent with experiments, grid spacing ratio between the first two consecutive modules is −1.4.”

12. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Connecting multiple spatial scales to decode the population activity of grid cells

    Stemmler, Mathis and Herz · Science Advances · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Reading the neural code for space: discrete scales of grid-cell activity enable goal-directed navigation and localization.”

13. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    A novel somatosensory spatial navigation system outside the hippocampal formation

    Long and Zhang · Cell Research · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“To our surprise, we were able to detect the full complement of spatially selective firing patterns similar to that reported in the hippocampal-entorhinal network, namely, place cells, head direction cells, boundary vector/border cells, grid cells and conjunc…

14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Framing of grid cells within and beyond navigation boundaries

    Savelli, Luck and Knierim · eLife · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Although the local, geometric frame of reference often exerted the strongest control over the grids, the remote cues demonstrated a consistent, sometimes dominant, countervailing influence.”

15. 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…

16. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map

    Jeffery · Learning & Behavior · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“The emerging picture is that instead of being a single, unified construct, the map is a mosaic of fragments that are heterogeneous, variably metric, multiply scaled, and sometimes laid on top of each other.”
    2. Unchecked“Important organizing factors within and between fragments include boundaries, context, compass direction, and gravity.”
    3. Unchecked“The map functions not to provide a comprehensive and precise rendering of the environment but rather to support adaptive behavior, tailored to the species and situation.”