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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Dynamics of Mismatch Correction in the Hippocampal Ensemble Code for Space: Interaction between Path Integration and Environmental Cues

   Gothard, Skaggs and McNaughton · Journal of Neuroscience · 1996

   Recording hippocampal place cells in rats running to a movable reward box, the authors found that path integration and external cues compete to set the brain's position signal when the two disagree.

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   1. Unchecked“For small mismatches, the vector moved smoothly through intervening coordinates until the mismatch was corrected.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, when a journey's mismatch with the full-length track was large, the hippocampal position signal jumped abruptly to the new coordinate.“For large mismatches, it jumped abruptly to the new coordinate.”
   3. UncheckedIn rats, when path integration and outside cues disagree about position, the two compete to control where hippocampal place cells fire.“Thus, when mismatches occur, path integration and external cues interact competitively to control place-cell firing.”