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egocentric boundary cell: a standalone construct

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Neuroscience

a neuron that fires when an environmental boundary lies at a particular direction and distance relative to the animal's own heading.

In neuroscience, egocentric boundary cell refers to a neuron that fires when an environmental boundary lies at a particular direction and distance relative to the animal's own heading. This meaning comes from Hinman (2019) in Nature Communications.[1]

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References

Hinman, J. R., Chapman, G. W., & Hasselmo, M. E. (2019). Neuronal representation of environmental boundaries in egocentric coordinates. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10722-y

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