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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Conversion of a phase‐ to a rate‐coded position signal by a three‐stage model of theta cells, grid cells, and place cells

   Blair, Gupta and Zhang · Hippocampus · 2008

   The paper describes a three-stage network model that converts a phase-coded position signal in theta oscillations into rate-coded position signals in grid cells and place cells.

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   1. UncheckedRing attractor networks can, by the authors' maths, generate velocity-modulated theta oscillations, and may sit in subcortical areas where hippocampal theta arises.“We show analytically how ring attractors can serve as central pattern generators for producing velocity‐modulated theta oscillations, and we propose that such ring attractors may reside in subcortical areas where hippocampal theta rhythm is known to originate.”