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From A to Z: a potential role for grid cells in spatial navigation

Barry, C; Bush, D; (2012) From A to Z: a potential role for grid cells in spatial navigation. Neural Systems & Circuits , 2 , Article 6. 10.1186/2042-1001-2-6. Green open access

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Abstract

Since their discovery, the strikingly regular and spatially stable firing of entorhinal grid cells has attracted the attention of experimentalists and theoreticians alike. The bulk of this work has focused either on the assumption that the principal role of grid cells is to support path integration or the extent to which their multiple firing locations can drive the sparse activity of hippocampal place cells. Here, we propose that grid cells are best understood as part of a network that combines self-motion and environmental cues to accurately track an animal’s location in space. Furthermore, that grid cells - more so than place cells - efficiently encode self-location in allocentric coordinates. Finally, that the regular structure of grid firing fields represents information about the relative structure of space and, as such, may be used to guide goal directed navigation.

Type: Article
Title: From A to Z: a potential role for grid cells in spatial navigation
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/2042-1001-2-6
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1186/2042-1001-2-6
Language: English
Additional information: This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Grid Cell, Entorhinal Cortex, Place Cell, Place Field, Residue Number System
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Cell and Developmental Biology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082530
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