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73 claims from 44 papers, showing 1–20 of 44

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

   Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2005

   The paper reports a map of space in the dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex, built from grid cells, which may be part of a path-integration-based map of the environment.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cells in a rat brain region fire whenever the animal is at any corner of a regular lattice of equilateral triangles covering its environment.“Its key unit is the 'grid cell', which is activated whenever the animal's position coincides with any vertex of a regular grid of equilateral triangles spanning the surface of the environment.”
   2. UncheckedNeighbouring grid cells in the entorhinal cortex share the same grid orientation and spacing, but their grids are offset from one another.“Grids of neighbouring cells share a common orientation and spacing, but their vertex locations (their phases) differ.”
   3. UncheckedIn the paper's recordings, grid cells in the entorhinal cortex have wider-spaced and larger firing fields further down the dorsal-to-ventral axis.“The spacing and size of individual fields increase from dorsal to ventral dMEC.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Representation of Geometric Borders in the Entorhinal Cortex

   Solstad, Boccara, Kropff, Moser and Moser · Science · 2008

   The paper reports a cell type in the entorhinal cortex, called border cells, that fires when an animal is near the borders of its environment, and suggests these cells help anchor spatial maps.

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   1. UncheckedBorder cells, which fire near environmental edges, make up under 10% of local cells but occur in all medial entorhinal layers and the parasubiculum.“Border cells are relatively sparse, making up less than 10% of the local cell population, but can be found in all layers of the medial entorhinal cortex as well as the adjacent parasubiculum, often intermingled with head-direction cells and grid cells.”
   2. Unchecked“The orientation-specific edge-apposing activity of these “border cells” is maintained when the environment is stretched and during testing in enclosures of different size and shape in different rooms.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The entorhinal grid map is discretized

   Stensola, Stensola, Solstad, Frøland, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2012

   Recording many grid cells in single rats, the authors report that the entorhinal grid map is divided into a few discrete modules that can respond independently to changes in environment geometry.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, recordings from up to 186 grid cells show they cluster into a few modules differing in scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta modulation.“Here we show with recordings from up to 186 grid cells in individual rats that grid cells cluster into a small number of layer-spanning anatomically overlapping modules with distinct scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta-frequency modulation.”
   2. Unchecked“These modules can respond independently to changes in the geometry of the environment.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Perineuronal nets stabilize the grid cell network

   Christensen, Lensjø, Lepperød et al. · Nature Communications · 2021

   The paper reports that removing perineuronal nets lowers inhibitory activity and destabilises grid cell maps, with knock-on distortion of hippocampal spatial representations, suggesting the nets stabilise the grid network.

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   1. UncheckedIn animals with disrupted perineuronal nets, a novel arena scrambled grid cell timing relationships and the stored map of a familiar arena.“Furthermore, in animals with disrupted PNNs, exposure to a novel arena corrupted the spatiotemporal relationships within grid cell modules, and the stored representations of a familiar arena.”
   2. Unchecked“Finally, we show that PNN removal in entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Head-direction cells recorded from the postsubiculum in freely moving rats. I. Description and quantitative analysis

   Taube, Muller and Ranck · Journal of Neuroscience · 1990

   Recording from rat postsubiculum neurons in a cylinder, the authors identified head-direction cells that fire according to the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, regardless of its location or behaviour.

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   1. Unchecked“Approximately 26% of the cells were classified as head-direction cells because they discharged as a function of the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, independent of the animal's behavior, location, or trunk position.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, each head-direction cell's firing rate, plotted against head direction, was adequately described by a triangular function.“Plots of firing rate versus head direction showed that each firing-rate/head-direction function was adequately described by a triangular function.”
   3. UncheckedIn 24 head-direction cells from 7 rats, the directions that made cells fire most were spread evenly across the full 360-degree circle.“Results from 24 head-direction cells in 7 animals showed an equal distribution of preferred firing directions over a 360 degrees angle.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The effects of changes in the environment on the spatial firing of hippocampal complex-spike cells

   Muller and Kubie · Journal of Neuroscience · 1987

   Recording hippocampal place cells in a cylinder, the authors varied the cue card, wall size and shape, floor plan and added barriers, and measured how each change altered the cells' firing fields.

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   1. UncheckedWhen the cue card on the wall was rotated, the firing fields of individual hippocampal place cells rotated by equal amounts.“Rotating the cue card produced equal rotations of the firing fields of single cells.”
   2. Unchecked“When the standard (small) cylinder was scaled up in diameter and height by a factor of 2, the firing fields of 36% of the cells observed in both cylinders also scaled, in the sense that the field stayed at the same angular position and at the same relative r…

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Conjunctive Representation of Position, Direction, and Velocity in Entorhinal Cortex

   Sargolini, Fyhn, Hafting et al. · Science · 2006

   Recording from each principal cell layer of rat medial entorhinal cortex, the authors found grid, head-direction and conjunctive cells, all modulated by running speed, which may help update grid coordinates during navigation.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, layer II of the medial entorhinal cortex was mostly grid cells, while deeper layers mixed grid, head-direction and conjunctive cells.“Whereas layer II was predominated by grid cells, grid cells colocalized with head-direction cells and conjunctive grid × head-direction cells in the deeper layers.”

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network

   Doeller, Barry and Burgess · Nature · 2010

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   1. Unchecked“We then looked for this signal as participants explored a virtual reality environment, mimicking the rats' foraging task: fMRI activation and adaptation showing a speed-modulated six-fold rotational symmetry in running direction.”
   2. Unchecked“The signal was found in a network of entorhinal/subicular, posterior and medial parietal, lateral temporal and medial prefrontal areas.”
   3. Unchecked“The effect was strongest in right entorhinal cortex, and the coherence of the directional signal across entorhinal cortex correlated with spatial memory performance.”

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

   Aronov, Nevers and Tank · Nature · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“We found neural representation of the entire behavioural task, including activity that formed discrete firing fields at particular sound frequencies.”

10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex

    Fyhn, Hafting, Treves, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“Grid fields of co-localized medial entorhinal cortex cells move and rotate in concert during this realignment.”

11. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

    Lever, Burton, Jeewajee, O'Keefe and Burgess · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we report the existence of cells fulfilling this description in recordings from the subiculum of freely moving rats.”

12. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents

    Banino, Barry, Uría et al. · Nature · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Furthermore, grid-like representations enabled agents to conduct shortcut behaviours reminiscent of those performed by mammals.”
    2. Unchecked“Our findings show that emergent grid-like representations furnish agents with a Euclidean spatial metric and associated vector operations, providing a foundation for proficient navigation.”

13. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing

    Burgess, Barry and O'Keefe · Hippocampus · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“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.”

14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat

    Langston, Ainge, Couey et al. · Science · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“A neural representation of external space at this early time points to strong innate components for perception of space.”

15. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine: Unifying Space and Relational Memory through Generalization in the Hippocampal Formation

    Whittington, Müller, Mark et al. · Cell · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“After learning, TEM entorhinal cells display diverse properties resembling apparently bespoke spatial responses, such as grid, band, border, and object-vector cells.”

16. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    A Spin Glass Model of Path Integration in Rat Medial Entorhinal Cortex

    Fuhs and Touretzky · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006

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    1. Unchecked“The spatial firing fields of the simulated cells closely resemble those of dMEC cells.”
    2. Unchecked“Introducing an asymmetry in the model allows the activity bumps to be shifted in any direction, at a rate proportional to velocity, to achieve path integration.”

17. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

    Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Jeffery · Nature Neuroscience · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“Thus grid scale reflects an interaction between intrinsic, path-integrative calculation of location and learned associations to the external environment.”

18. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum

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

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    1. Unchecked“The proportion of grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to deep layers of MEC.”
    2. Unchecked“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. Unchecked“The symmetry of the grid pattern and its relationship to the theta rhythm were weaker, especially in presubiculum.”

19. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The Aging Navigational System

    Lester, Moffat, Wiener, Barnes and Wolbers · Neuron · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Critically, we show 1) that navigational deficits cannot solely be explained by general deficits in learning and memory, 2) that there is no uniform decline across different navigational computations, and 3) that navigational deficits might be sensitive mark…

20. 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.”