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5 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing

   Burgess, Barry and O'Keefe · Hippocampus · 2007

   The paper extends an oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing to two dimensions, describing a mechanism, a learning rule and predictions about oscillation frequencies in grid cell activity.

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   1. UncheckedThe model proposes that dendritic subunits of layer II medial entorhinal stellate cells each make a linear interference pattern, and their product sets the cell's firing.“Specifically, dendritic subunits of layer II medial entorhinal stellate cells provide multiple linear interference patterns along different directions, with their product determining the firing of the cell.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum

   Boccara, Sargolini, Thoresen et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2010

   In rats, grid cells were found to be abundant in pre- and parasubiculum as well as medial entorhinal cortex, alongside head-direction and border cells, which constrains how such cells might arise.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, the share of grid cells in the pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to that in the deep layers of the medial entorhinal cortex.“The proportion of grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to deep layers of MEC.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, grid cells, first found in medial entorhinal cortex, were also abundant in two neighbouring brain regions, the pre- and parasubiculum.“In rats, we found that one of the cell types, the grid cell, was abundant not only in medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), where it was first reported, but also in pre- and parasubiculum.”
   3. UncheckedIn rats, grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum showed a less symmetrical grid pattern and a weaker link to theta rhythm, especially in presubiculum.“The symmetry of the grid pattern and its relationship to the theta rhythm were weaker, especially in presubiculum.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A map of visual space in the primate entorhinal cortex

   Killian, Jutras and Buffalo · Nature · 2012

   Recording from the entorhinal cortex of head-fixed monkeys viewing images, the authors report neurons with grid-like firing tied to where the monkey looked, which they describe as grid cells in primates.

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   1. UncheckedSome neurons in monkeys' entorhinal cortex fired at gaze locations arranged in a repeating triangular, hexagonal-looking pattern across the visual field.“These firing fields possessed spatial periodicity similar to a triangular tiling with a corresponding well-defined hexagonal structure in the spatial autocorrelation.”