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grid cells: a standalone construct

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Neuroscience

entorhinal neurons that fire at many places laid out in a regular triangular lattice across an environment, giving a metric for self-location.

In neuroscience, grid cells refers to entorhinal neurons that fire at many places laid out in a regular triangular lattice across an environment, giving a metric for self-location. This meaning comes from Hafting (2005) in Nature.[1]

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References

Hafting, T., Fyhn, M., Molden, S., Moser, M., & Moser, E. I. (2005). Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature, 436(7052), 801-806. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03721

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