{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:8906fa5a0e45d4f5","external":true,"kind":"conceptual","text":"Due to anatomical selectivity of retinotopic processing, the sensory features on the walls of an environment may have a stronger effect on ventral grid cells that have wider spaced firing fields, whereas the sensory features on the ground plane may influence the firing of dorsal grid cells with narrower spacing between firing fields.","quote":"Due to anatomical selectivity of retinotopic processing, the sensory features on the walls of an environment may have a stronger effect on ventral grid cells that have wider spaced firing fields, whereas the sensory features on the ground plane may influence the firing of dorsal grid cells with narrower spacing between firing fields.","test":"Refuted if an independent experiment shows that wall‑based sensory features do not have a statistically significantly greater influence on ventral grid cells than on dorsal grid cells, or that ground‑plane features do not have a statistically significantly greater influence on dorsal grid cells than on ventral grid cells.","source":"doi:10.1113/jp270649","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1113/jp270649","field":"Neuroscience","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":null,"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has yet tested this claim by argument in a way independent checkers have settled. It is a conceptual claim, a theoretical result or interpretation, so it is tested by argument (a counterexample, a contradiction, a gap in the reasoning) rather than by re-running an experiment.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2340186674","title":"Modelling effects on grid cells of sensory input during self‐motion","authors":["Florian Raudies","James R. 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The abstract does not describe a new experiment.","gist":"This review describes theories and data on how sensory input, especially vision, may shape the regular firing patterns of grid cells, and how that might support goal-directed navigation.","meaning":"Grid cells fire in regular patterns as an animal moves through space, and how they get those patterns is still unclear. The claim proposes that the part of the visual scene an animal sees, walls or ground, may matter differently along the long axis of the entorhinal cortex, linked to grid spacing. If it holds, it would help explain how visual input could feed into grid cell firing and into navigation toward goals. 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