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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Modeling place fields in terms of the cortical inputs to the hippocampus

   Hartley, Burgess, Lever, Cacucci and O'Keefe · Hippocampus · 2000

   The paper presents a model predicting place cells' firing fields from boundary-sensitive cortical inputs, and reports that it fits individual cells and populations across environments of differing shape.

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   1. UncheckedIn this model, a place cell's first firing pattern in any environment is set by its inputs and its threshold, with no learning needed.“The initial behavior of a place cell in any environment is simply determined by its set of inputs and its threshold; learning is not necessary.”
   2. UncheckedA model based on boundary-tuned cortical inputs is reported to fit the firing of single place cells and place cell populations across differently shaped environments.“The model is shown to produce a good fit to the firing of individual place cells, and populations of place cells across environments of differing shape.”
   3. UncheckedThe paper's model says a place cell's firing can be predicted in new environments of any size or shape, or after a barrier is added.“The cells' behavior can be predicted for novel environments of arbitrary size and shape, or for manipulations such as introducing a barrier.”