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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 computational model and ran electrophysiology experiments.","gist":"Imaging grid cells in mice over 10 days in novel virtual tracks, the authors report gradual field shifts and stabilisation, and propose slow hippocampus-to-entorhinal plasticity as the mechanism.","meaning":"The claim describes how the brain's grid cells, which help build internal maps of space, behave in a new place: they are tuned to location at once, but their firing positions keep drifting backward as the animal runs. The paper links this gradual change to map formation and learning. 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