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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Optimal Population Codes for Space: Grid Cells Outperform Place Cells

   Mathis, Herz and Stemmler · Neural Computation · 2012

   The authors analyse how place and grid codes for position should be built to give the best resolution, and find that a well-designed grid code can far exceed the best place code with the same number of neurons.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's model predicts that, for the best spatial resolution, a grid code should contain more grid cells with short lattice spacings than with long ones.“First, short lattice spacings should outnumber long lattice spacings.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper's model predicts that grid fields should take up the same fraction of the lattice period whatever the lattice spacing, to give the best spatial resolution.“Second, the grid code should be self-similar across different lattice spacings, so that the grid field always covers a fixed fraction of the lattice period.”