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17 claims from 13 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

   The entorhinal grid map is discretized

   Stensola, Stensola, Solstad, Frøland, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2012

   Recording many grid cells in single rats, the authors report that the entorhinal grid map is divided into a few discrete modules that can respond independently to changes in environment geometry.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, recordings from up to 186 grid cells show they cluster into a few modules differing in scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta modulation.“Here we show with recordings from up to 186 grid cells in individual rats that grid cells cluster into a small number of layer-spanning anatomically overlapping modules with distinct scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta-frequency modulation.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, separate groups of grid cells (modules) can each respond independently when the shape of the surrounding environment changes.“These modules can respond independently to changes in the geometry of the environment.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Conjunctive Representation of Position, Direction, and Velocity in Entorhinal Cortex

   Sargolini, Fyhn, Hafting et al. · Science · 2006

   Recording from each principal cell layer of rat medial entorhinal cortex, the authors found grid, head-direction and conjunctive cells, all modulated by running speed, which may help update grid coordinates during navigation.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, layer II of the medial entorhinal cortex was mostly grid cells, while deeper layers mixed grid, head-direction and conjunctive cells.“Whereas layer II was predominated by grid cells, grid cells colocalized with head-direction cells and conjunctive grid × head-direction cells in the deeper layers.”

4. 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.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Aging Navigational System

   Lester, Moffat, Wiener, Barnes and Wolbers · Neuron · 2017

   A review of evidence from rodents, non-human primates and humans on how cognitive ageing affects the brain's navigation systems, with a closing look at clinical uses in neurodegenerative disorders.

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   1. UncheckedThis review argues that ageing-related navigation problems are not just general memory decline, vary by type of navigation task, and might flag early disease.“Critically, we show 1) that navigational deficits cannot solely be explained by general deficits in learning and memory, 2) that there is no uniform decline across different navigational computations, and 3) that navigational deficits might be sensitive markers for impending pathological decline.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cell symmetry is shaped by environmental geometry

   Krupic, Bauža, Burton, Barry and O'Keefe · Nature · 2015

   Recording grid cells in enclosures of different shapes, the authors report that environmental geometry strongly and lastingly affects grid orientation, scale, symmetry and homogeneity.

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   1. UncheckedIn strongly polarised enclosures such as trapezoids, grid cells' hexagonal firing pattern stays distorted, becoming more elliptical and less uniform.“Furthermore, the hexagonal grid symmetry is permanently broken in highly polarized environments such as trapezoids, the pattern being more elliptical and less homogeneous.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper states that grid cell firing is more local than thought, so it cannot serve as a universal spatial metric in every environment.“Notably, grid cell activity is more local than previously thought and as a consequence cannot provide a universal spatial metric in all environments.”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells require excitatory drive from the hippocampus

   Bonnevie, Dunn, Fyhn et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“First, hippocampal inactivation gradually and selectively extinguished the grid pattern.”

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Cognitive Architecture of Spatial Navigation: Hippocampal and Striatal Contributions

   Chersi and Burgess · Neuron · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“The resulting architecture includes striatal reinforcement learning based on egocentric representations of sensory states and actions, incidental Hebbian association of sensory information with allocentric state representations in the hippocampus, and arbitr…

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural networks to perform spatial localization

   Cueva and Wei · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

   The authors trained recurrent neural networks to navigate 2D arenas from velocity inputs, and report that units resembling entorhinal grid cells, border cells and band-like cells emerged.

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   1. UncheckedRecurrent neural networks trained to navigate 2D arenas from velocity inputs developed grid-like, border-like and band-like spatial response patterns.“Surprisingly, we find that grid-like spatial response patterns emerge in trained networks, along with units that exhibit other spatial correlates, including border cells and band-like cells.”

10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    A novel somatosensory spatial navigation system outside the hippocampal formation

    Long and Zhang · Cell Research · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“To our surprise, we were able to detect the full complement of spatially selective firing patterns similar to that reported in the hippocampal-entorhinal network, namely, place cells, head direction cells, boundary vector/border cells, grid cells and conjunc…

11. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Characterizing Speed Cells in the Rat Hippocampus

    Góis and Tort · Cell Reports · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Moreover, their speed-correlated firing occurs within theta cycles, independently of theta frequency.”

12. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    A map of spatial navigation for neuroscience

    Parra-Barrero, Vijayabaskaran, Seabrook, Wiskott and Cheng · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“This has led the latter to under-appreciate the relevance and complexity of spatial behavior, and to focus too narrowly on characterizing neural representations of space-disconnected from the computations these representations are meant to enable.”

13. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The Sense of Place: Grid Cells in the Brain and the Transcendental Number e

    Xue-Xin, Jason and Vijay · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“We propose that the grid system minimizes the number of neurons required to encode location with a given resolution.”