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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells generate an analog error-correcting code for singularly precise neural computation

   Sreenivasan and Fiete · Nature Neuroscience · 2011

   The paper analyses how accurately noisy grid cells encode location and reports a robust, error-correcting population code that a simple neural network can decode.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper states that grid cells represent location far more accurately across their coding range than observed sensory and motor population codes can.“In particular, the representational accuracy attained by grid cells over the coding range was in a qualitatively different class from what is possible with observed sensory and motor population codes.”
   2. UncheckedA simple neural network can effectively correct errors in the grid cell code that the brain uses to represent location, according to the authors.“We found that a simple neural network can effectively correct the grid code.”