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Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W4412778055","title":"Slow synaptic plasticity from the hippocampus underlies gradual mapping and fragmentation of novel spaces by grid cells","authors":["Lujia Chen","Ling Liang Dong","Jung Hoon Shin","Farid Shahid","Taylor Joseph Malone","Yan Ma","Sreerag Othayoth Vasu","Nai-Wen Tien","Kyle Cekada","Kevin Jiang Zhang","Lucy G. 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They also built a model and added electrophysiology.","gist":"Imaging grid cells in mice over 10 days in novel virtual tracks showed fields shifting backward and stabilising, and a model and recordings point to slow hippocampus-to-entorhinal plasticity.","meaning":"Grid cells fire at regularly spaced locations, and cells in a module are thought to share a common underlying structure. Here, even though single fields moved by different amounts, fields active together moved in step. That fits the idea that a module's cells are driven by one shared two-dimensional pattern, even as maps change during learning of a new space. If it holds, it links the changing maps to the way grid modules are organised.","findings":["Grid cells show spatial tuning immediately in novel tracks, but many fields shift backward run by run, more so in successful learners.","Fields gradually stabilise across days, anchored by landmarks, and population activity becomes fragmented at landmarks.","A model and electrophysiology point to slow Hebbian plasticity in the hippocampus-to-entorhinal pathway, with weaker local inhibition correlated with learning performance."],"terms":[{"term":"co-modular grid cells","means":"Grid cells belonging to the same module, meaning they share a similar grid spacing and orientation."},{"term":"co-active fields","means":"Firing fields of different cells that are active at the same time as the animal moves through the same place."},{"term":"two-dimensional torus","means":"A doughnut-shaped surface used to describe how a grid module's activity wraps around in two directions, so that its repeating pattern can be mapped onto one shared space."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"crossref","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-22T21:16:02.933Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-22T21:16:02.933Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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