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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2018

Grid-Cell Activity on Linear Tracks Indicates Purely Translational Remapping of 2D Firing Patterns at Movement Turning Points.

Michaela Pröll, Stefan Häusler, Andreas V M Herz

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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  4. Place cells and geometry lead to a flexible grid pattern.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2021
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  6. The grid code for ordered experience.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2021
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3 authors.

Michaela PröllBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich and Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany michaela.proell@campus.lmu.de.ORCID 0000-0002-1504-0342
Stefan HäuslerBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich and Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0772-8662
Andreas V M HerzBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich and Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3836-565X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Grid cells in rodent medial entorhinal cortex are thought to play a critical role for spatial navigation. When the animal is freely moving in an open arena the firing fields of each grid cell tend to form a hexagonal lattice spanning the environment. For movements along a linear track the cells seem to respond differently. They show multiple firing fields that are not periodically arranged and whose shape and position change when the running direction is reversed. In addition, peak firing rates vary widely from field to field. Measured along one running direction only, firing fields are, however, compatible with a slice through a two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal pattern. It is an open question, whether this is also true if leftward and rightward runs are jointly considered. By analyzing data from 15 male Long-Evans rats, we show that a single hexagonal firing pattern explains the linear-track data if translational shifts of the pattern are allowed at the movement turning points. A rotation or scaling of the grid is not required. The agreement is further improved if the peak firing rates of the underlying 2D grid fields can vary from field to field, as suggested by recent studies. These findings have direct consequences for experiments using linear tracks in virtual reality.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsEntorhinal CortexExploratory BehaviorMaleModels, NeurologicalNeuronsRatsRats, Long-EvansSpatial Navigationgrid cellslinear trackmedial entorhinal cortexremappingspatial navigation

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PMID29976622
PMCPMC6596115

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