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Only independent evidence moves it."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W3192186352","title":"Locally ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex","authors":["Gily Ginosar","Johnatan Aljadeff","Yoram Burak","Haim Sompolinsky","Liora Las","Nachum Ulanovsky"],"authorCount":6,"venue":"Nature","year":2021,"type":"article","citedBy":110,"keywords":["medial entorhinal cortex","hexagonal lattice","three-dimensional representation","head direction cells","grid cells","local order"],"topic":{"topic":"Memory and Neural Mechanisms","subfield":"Cognitive Neuroscience","field":"Neuroscience","domain":"Life Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-18T20:45:57.461Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"A model in which grid-cell fields interact in pairs gave a hexagonal lattice in 2D and only local order in 3D, covering both with one model.","did":"The authors recorded from cells in the medial entorhinal cortex of freely flying bats and classified the spatial neurons they found. They then built a model of grid cells based on pairwise interactions between firing fields.","gist":"Recording from freely flying bats, the authors found that 3D grid cells have locally ordered but not globally lattice-like fields, and proposed one model to account for both 2D and 3D grid cells.","meaning":"Grid cells in flat 2D space are known for a regular hexagonal pattern of firing fields. This claim concerns a model that tries to explain why 3D grid cells in bats show only a preferred spacing between neighbouring fields, without a global lattice. If it holds, one simple interaction rule could account for the differences and similarities between how the brain codes 2D and 3D space.","findings":["Recordings in flying bats identified several classes of spatial neurons, including 3D border cells, 3D head-direction cells and cells with multiple 3D firing fields.","Many multifield neurons were 3D grid cells, with neighbouring fields separated by a characteristic distance (local order) but no global lattice arrangement.","A model based on pairwise interactions between fields produced a hexagonal lattice in 2D and local order in 3D."],"terms":[{"term":"grid cells","means":"Neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex that fire when an animal is at several locations, called firing fields, which together form a regular pattern across space."},{"term":"hexagonal lattice","means":"A regular repeating pattern in which each point has six equally spaced neighbours, like the cells of a honeycomb."},{"term":"local order","means":"A consistent typical distance between neighbouring firing fields, without the regular pattern continuing across the whole space."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"europepmc","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-18T21:00:48.215Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-18T21:00:48.215Z","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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