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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid Cells Form a Global Representation of Connected Environments

   Carpenter, Manson, Jeffery, Burgess and Barry · Current Biology · 2015

   Recording grid cells in rats in two identical compartments joined by a corridor, the authors found firing first repeated across compartments but, with experience, formed one continuous pattern spanning both.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats' early visits to a two-compartment environment, grid cell firing mostly repeated the same pattern in both compartments, following local cues.“During initial exposures to the multicompartment environment, grid firing patterns were dominated by local environmental cues, replicating between the two compartments.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats given prolonged experience of a two-compartment space, grid cell firing came to form one continuous pattern spanning both compartments.“However, with prolonged experience, grid cell firing patterns formed a single, continuous representation that spanned both compartments.”