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6 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Head-direction cells recorded from the postsubiculum in freely moving rats. I. Description and quantitative analysis

   Taube, Muller and Ranck · Journal of Neuroscience · 1990

   Recording from rat postsubiculum neurons in a cylinder, the authors identified head-direction cells that fire according to the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, regardless of its location or behaviour.

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   1. Unchecked“Approximately 26% of the cells were classified as head-direction cells because they discharged as a function of the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, independent of the animal's behavior, location, or trunk position.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, each head-direction cell's firing rate, plotted against head direction, was adequately described by a triangular function.“Plots of firing rate versus head direction showed that each firing-rate/head-direction function was adequately described by a triangular function.”
   3. UncheckedIn 24 head-direction cells from 7 rats, the directions that made cells fire most were spread evenly across the full 360-degree circle.“Results from 24 head-direction cells in 7 animals showed an equal distribution of preferred firing directions over a 360 degrees angle.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

   Lever, Burton, Jeewajee, O'Keefe and Burgess · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009

   The paper reports cells in the rat subiculum matching the boundary vector cells predicted by place cell models, and discusses how they may supply environmental information and relate to other cell types.

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   1. UncheckedRecordings from the subiculum of freely moving rats show cells that fit the description of the 'boundary vector cells' predicted by earlier models.“Here, we report the existence of cells fulfilling this description in recordings from the subiculum of freely moving rats.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cell firing patterns signal environmental novelty by expansion

   Barry, Ginzberg, O'Keefe and Burgess · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012

   The paper reports that grid cells expand in scale in novel environments and gradually shrink back as familiarity grows, which the authors suggest may signal novelty and familiarity.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cell firing patterns expand and become less regular in a novel environment, then return to their familiar scale as the environment becomes familiar.“Here, we show that environmental novelty causes the spatial firing patterns of grid cells to expand in scale and reduce in regularity, reverting to their familiar scale as the environment becomes familiar.”
   2. UncheckedPlace cells recorded alongside grid cells changed their firing fields in a novel environment and showed a smaller, temporary expansion.“Simultaneously recorded place cell firing fields remapped and showed a smaller, temporary expansion.”