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6 claims from 4 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The effects of changes in the environment on the spatial firing of hippocampal complex-spike cells

   Muller and Kubie · Journal of Neuroscience · 1987

   Recording hippocampal place cells in a cylinder, the authors varied the cue card, wall size and shape, floor plan and added barriers, and measured how each change altered the cells' firing fields.

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   1. UncheckedWhen the cue card on the wall was rotated, the firing fields of individual hippocampal place cells rotated by equal amounts.“Rotating the cue card produced equal rotations of the firing fields of single cells.”
   2. Unchecked“When the standard (small) cylinder was scaled up in diameter and height by a factor of 2, the firing fields of 36% of the cells observed in both cylinders also scaled, in the sense that the field stayed at the same angular position and at the same relative r…

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex

   Fyhn, Hafting, Treves, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2007

   Changes in hippocampal place-cell remapping can be predicted from grid-cell activity one synapse upstream: stable grid fields go with rate remapping, shifted grids with global remapping.

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   1. UncheckedGrid fields of nearby medial entorhinal cortex cells shift and rotate together when the hippocampal place code undergoes global remapping.“Grid fields of co-localized medial entorhinal cortex cells move and rotate in concert during this realignment.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine: Unifying Space and Relational Memory through Generalization in the Hippocampal Formation

   Whittington, Müller, Mark et al. · Cell · 2020

   The paper presents the Tolman-Eichenbaum machine, a model linking spatial and relational memory, whose artificial cells resemble many recorded hippocampal and entorhinal cell types and predict how remapping works.

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   1. UncheckedAfter training, the units in the paper's model that stand in for entorhinal cells show firing patterns like grid, band, border and object-vector cells.“After learning, TEM entorhinal cells display diverse properties resembling apparently bespoke spatial responses, such as grid, band, border, and object-vector cells.”

4. 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.”