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6 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

   Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2005

   The paper reports a map of space in the dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex, built from grid cells, which may be part of a path-integration-based map of the environment.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cells in a rat brain region fire whenever the animal is at any corner of a regular lattice of equilateral triangles covering its environment.“Its key unit is the 'grid cell', which is activated whenever the animal's position coincides with any vertex of a regular grid of equilateral triangles spanning the surface of the environment.”
   2. UncheckedNeighbouring grid cells in the entorhinal cortex share the same grid orientation and spacing, but their grids are offset from one another.“Grids of neighbouring cells share a common orientation and spacing, but their vertex locations (their phases) differ.”
   3. UncheckedIn the paper's recordings, grid cells in the entorhinal cortex have wider-spaced and larger firing fields further down the dorsal-to-ventral axis.“The spacing and size of individual fields increase from dorsal to ventral dMEC.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Shearing-induced asymmetry in entorhinal grid cells

   Stensola, Stensola, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2015

   Grid cell patterns in square enclosures are rotated relative to the walls and elliptically distorted; the authors suggest shear forces from anchoring to geometric reference points explain this.

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   1. UncheckedMathematically undoing the elliptical stretching of grid cell patterns by a shearing transformation removes their rotational offset from the walls.“Reversing the ellipticity analytically by a shearing transformation removes the angular offset.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The orbitofrontal cortex forms a context-generalized spatial schema that preserves topology and distance

   Basu, Mozaffarilegha, Bölükbaşı, Üstüner and Ito · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025

   The paper reports a spatial map in the orbitofrontal cortex that encodes navigational targets, keeps their order and relative distances, and works across contexts and after hippocampal or entorhinal lesions.

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   1. UncheckedOrbitofrontal cortex spatial maps stayed stable across rooms and maze shapes, while hippocampal and medial entorhinal maps changed markedly.“Remarkably, OFC maps remained stable when animals performed the same navigation task across rooms and maze geometries, in stark contrast to the pronounced remapping observed in HPC and MEC.”
   2. UncheckedOrbitofrontal cortex spatial maps were still present after lesions to the hippocampus or medial entorhinal cortex, the paper says, suggesting an independent system.“Moreover, OFC maps persisted after HPC or MEC lesions, demonstrating an independent spatial mapping system.”