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5 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The entorhinal grid map is discretized

   Stensola, Stensola, Solstad, Frøland, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2012

   Recording many grid cells in single rats, the authors report that the entorhinal grid map is divided into a few discrete modules that can respond independently to changes in environment geometry.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, recordings from up to 186 grid cells show they cluster into a few modules differing in scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta modulation.“Here we show with recordings from up to 186 grid cells in individual rats that grid cells cluster into a small number of layer-spanning anatomically overlapping modules with distinct scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta-frequency modulation.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, separate groups of grid cells (modules) can each respond independently when the shape of the surrounding environment changes.“These modules can respond independently to changes in the geometry of the environment.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Single unit activity in the rat hippocampus during a spatial memory task

   O'Keefe and Speakman · Experimental Brain Research · 1987

   Recording single hippocampal cells in rats doing a spatial memory task on a plus-shaped maze, the study examined how their firing related to different spatial features and to memory delays.

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   1. UncheckedOf 43 hippocampal cells in rats that could be tested, 15 had firing linked to the shape of the maze arms themselves.“Of 43 units which could be tested for their relation to the shape of the maze arms themselves, 15 showed such a relationship.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats doing a spatial memory task, 90% of 30 hippocampal place cells tied to the controlled cues kept their place fields during the delay without cues.“The place fields of 90% of these units were maintained during the retention phase of the memory trials.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells

   Yoon, Buice, Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Fiete · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

   Recording many rat grid cells at once, the authors found their joint activity is low-dimensional and robust, which they say supports the idea that the brain computes using continuous attractors.

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   1. UncheckedIn rat grid cells with similar spatial periods, joint activity lay close to a two-dimensional manifold, differing only along two response dimensions.“Among grid cells with similar spatial periods, the population activity was confined to lie close to a two-dimensional (2D) manifold: grid cells differed only along two dimensions of their responses and otherwise were nearly identical.”