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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Modeling Grid Cell Distortions with a Grid Cell Calibration Mechanism

   Strauß, Bing, Zhuang, Huang and Knoll · Cyborg and Bionic Systems · 2024

   The paper proposes a calibration circuit for grid cells and reports that simulations of it reproduce observed grid distortions, and also yield experimentally testable predictions about spatial computation.

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   1. UncheckedIn simulations, a proposed calibration circuit for grid cells reproduces grid distortions seen in several earlier rodent studies.“Our simulations demonstrate that this circuit is capable of reproducing grid distortions observed in several previous studies.”
   2. UncheckedThe model makes testable predictions, including a different account of boundary vector cells that predicts different behaviour in nonsquare environments.“It generates several experimentally testable predictions, including an alternative behavioral description of boundary vector cells that predicts behaviors in nonsquare environments different from the current model of boundary vector cells.”