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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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2019-08-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/46687 |