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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Visual landmarks sharpen grid cell metric and confer context specificity to neurons of the medial entorhinal cortex

   Pérez‐Escobar, Kornienko, Latuske, Kohler and Allen · eLife · 2016

   The study tested whether visual information, including nonmetric contextual cues, regulates the firing of neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex, and reports changes in grid, border and other cells.

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   1. UncheckedTaking away visual landmarks caused a profound impairment in the regular, periodic firing pattern of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex.“Removal of visual landmarks caused a profound impairment in grid cell periodicity.”
   2. UncheckedChanging visual cues that were not about distance or shape, while keeping a 1D environment's boundaries, altered the firing rates of grid cells.“Manipulations of nonmetric visual cues that left the boundaries of a 1D environment in place caused rate changes in grid cells.”