A geometric attractor mechanism for self-organization of entorhinal grid modules

Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) respond when an animal occupies a periodic lattice of ‘grid fields’ in the environment. The grids are organized in modules with spatial periods, or scales, clustered around discrete values separated on average by ratios in the range 1.4–1.7. We propos...

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Main Authors: Louis Kang, Vijay Balasubramanian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-08-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/46687