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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A Model of Grid Cell Development through Spatial Exploration and Spike Time-Dependent Plasticity

   Widloski and Fiete · Neuron · 2014

   The authors present a model in which a plasticity rule shapes an unstructured spiking network into a grid cell network that turns velocity inputs into estimates of animal location.

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   1. UncheckedIn this model, a network can learn grid-like spatial firing and path integration through synaptic plasticity, from inputs that have neither property.“The mature network can convert velocity inputs into estimates of animal location, showing that spatially periodic responses and the capacity of path integration can arise through synaptic plasticity, acting on inputs that display neither.”