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73 claims from 44 papers, showing 21–40 of 44

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Object-vector coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

   Høydal, Skytøen, Andersson, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Here we show that a large fraction of medial entorhinal cortex neurons fire specifically when mice are at given distances and directions from spatially confined objects.”
   2. Unchecked“These 'object-vector cells' are tuned equally to a spectrum of discrete objects, irrespective of their location in the test arena, as well as to a broad range of dimensions and shapes, from point-like objects to extended surfaces.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Influence of boundary removal on the spatial representations of the medial entorhinal cortex

   Savelli, Yoganarasimha and Knierim · Hippocampus · 2008

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   1. Unchecked“A number of cells that resembled classic hippocampal place cells in the small box were revealed to be grid cells in the larger box.”
   2. Unchecked“Remapping of the spatial response in the area corresponding to the small box after the removal of its walls was prominent in most spatially modulated cells.”

3. 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.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment

   Derdikman, Whitlock, Tsao et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2009

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   1. Unchecked“We saw similar discontinuities among place cells in the hippocampus.”
   2. Unchecked“No fragmentation was observed when the rats followed similar trajectories in the absence of internal walls, implying that stereotypic behavior alone cannot explain the compartmentalization.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells

   Yoon, Buice, Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Fiete · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“Among grid cells with similar spatial periods, the population activity was confined to lie close to a two-dimensional (2D) manifold: grid cells differed only along two dimensions of their responses and otherwise were nearly identical.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Map Making: Constructing, Combining, and Inferring on Abstract Cognitive Maps

   Park, Miller, Nili, Ranganath and Boorman · Neuron · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“Although one dimension was behaviorally relevant, multivariate activity patterns in HC, EC, and vmPFC/mOFC were linearly related to the Euclidean distance between people in the mentally reconstructed 2D space.”
   2. Unchecked“We found that both behavior and neural activity in EC and vmPFC/mOFC reflected the Euclidean distance to the retrieved hub, which was reinstated in HC.”

7. 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…

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Shearing-induced asymmetry in entorhinal grid cells

   Stensola, Stensola, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“Reversing the ellipticity analytically by a shearing transformation removes the angular offset.”

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Episodic memory: Neuronal codes for what, where, and when

   Sugar and Moser · Hippocampus · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Such information originates from (a) spatially modulated neurons in medial entorhinal cortex, including grid cells, which provide a stable and universal positional metric of the environment; (b) a continuously varying signal in lateral entorhinal cortex prov…

10. 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

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    1. Unchecked“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.”

11. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Extracting grid cell characteristics from place cell inputs using non-negative principal component analysis

    Dordek, Soudry, Meir and Derdikman · eLife · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Both numerical results and analytic considerations indicate that if the components of the feedforward neural network are non-negative, the output converges to a hexagonal lattice.”
    2. Unchecked“Without the non-negativity constraint, the output converges to a square lattice.”
    3. Unchecked“Consistent with experiments, grid spacing ratio between the first two consecutive modules is −1.4.”

12. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Connecting multiple spatial scales to decode the population activity of grid cells

    Stemmler, Mathis and Herz · Science Advances · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Reading the neural code for space: discrete scales of grid-cell activity enable goal-directed navigation and localization.”

13. 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…

14. 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.”

15. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Framing of grid cells within and beyond navigation boundaries

    Savelli, Luck and Knierim · eLife · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Although the local, geometric frame of reference often exerted the strongest control over the grids, the remote cues demonstrated a consistent, sometimes dominant, countervailing influence.”

16. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation

    Bowler and Losonczy · Neuron · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We uncover distinct yet overlapping representations of task, location, and context in both MEC and LEC axons.”
    2. Unchecked“MEC transmitted highly location- and context-specific codes; LEC inputs were biased by ongoing navigational goals.”
    3. Unchecked“However, during tasks with reliable reward locations, the animals' position could be accurately decoded from either subregion.”

17. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    How environment and self‐motion combine in neural representations of space

    Evans, Bičanski, Bush and Burgess · The Journal of Physiology · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“For head direction cells, direct projections from egocentric sensory representations of distal cues can help to correct cumulative errors.”
    2. Unchecked“However, the allocentric code of boundary vector cells and place cells requires consistent head‐direction information in order to translate the sensory signal of egocentric boundary distance into allocentric boundary vector cell firing, suggesting that the d…

18. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Cell type, sub-region, and layer-specific speed representation in the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

    Iwase, Kitanishi and Mizuseki · Scientific Reports · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Most speed cells located in entorhinal cortex layer 2 represented speed prospectively, whereas those in the CA1 and entorhinal cortex layers 3 and 5 represented speed retrospectively.”

19. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Locations in the Neocortex: A Theory of Sensorimotor Object Recognition Using Cortical Grid Cells

    Lewis, Purdy, Ahmad and Hawkins · Frontiers in Neural Circuits · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Simulations show that the model can learn hundreds of objects even when object features alone are insufficient for disambiguation.”

20. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Spatial coding dysfunction and network instability in the aging medial entorhinal cortex

    Herber, Pratt, Shea, Villeda and Giocomo · Nature Communications · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“In aged grid cells, we observed impaired stabilization of context-specific spatial firing, correlated with spatial memory deficits.”
    2. Unchecked“Additionally, aged grid networks shifted firing patterns often, but with poor alignment to context changes.”
    3. Unchecked“In these same mice, we identified 458 genes differentially expressed with age in MEC, 61 of which had expression correlated with spatial coding quality.”