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2 claims from 1 paper

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid alignment in entorhinal cortex

   Si, Kropff and Treves · Biological Cybernetics · 2012

   Using a model of grid cells forming through competitive learning, the authors ask how grid alignment and ellipse orientation arise, and how network connections and the simulated rat's behaviour shape them.

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   1. UncheckedIn this model of entorhinal cortex, tight grid alignment can arise from recurrent collateral connections, but only with head-direction modulation.“We find that tight alignment can be produced by recurrent collateral interactions, but this requires head-direction modulation.”
   2. UncheckedIn this model, uneven running speed across directions alone tends to align grid patterns, even without recurrent collaterals, though only loosely.“Speed anisotropy on its own also tends to align grids, even without collaterals, but the alignment is seen to be loose.”