ReviewTrends in neurosciences2014
What do grid cells contribute to place cell firing?
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- Place and behavioral modulation of hippocampal neurons during immobility.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Flexible navigation with neuromodulated cognitive maps.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- A simple model of co-emergence of grid and place fields.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Speed modulations in grid cell information geometry.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Unweaving the Cognitive Map: A Personal History.Hippocampus · 2025Review
- Replicating associative learning of rodents with a neuromorphic robot in an open-field arena.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Intrinsic dynamics of randomly clustered networks generate place fields and preplay of novel environments.eLife · 2024Article
- Intrinsic Bipolar Head-Direction Cells in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Retrosplenial inputs drive visual representations in the medial entorhinal cortex.Cell reports · 2024Article
- Intrinsic dynamics of randomly clustered networks generate place fields and preplay of novel environments.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Modeling Grid Cell Distortions with a Grid Cell Calibration Mechanism.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation.Neuron · 2023Article
- Coherently remapping toroidal cells but not Grid cells are responsible for path integration in virtual agents.iScience · 2023Article
- Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Entorhinal grid-like codes and time-locked network dynamics track others navigating through space.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Place and place names: a unified model.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Grid cells, border cells, and discrete complex analysis.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
The unitary firing fields of hippocampal place cells are commonly assumed to be generated by input from entorhinal grid cell modules with differing spatial scales. Here, we review recent research that brings this assumption into doubt. Instead, we propose that place cell spatial firing patterns are determined by environmental sensory inputs, including those representing the distance and direction to environmental boundaries, while grid cells provide a complementary self-motion related input that contributes to maintaining place cell firing. In this view, grid and place cell firing patterns are not successive stages of a processing hierarchy, but complementary and interacting representations that work in combination to support the reliable coding of large-scale space.
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