Computational models of grid cells

Neuron

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 589-603

  Giocomo, Lisa M ^a   Moser, May Britt ^a   Moser, Edvard I ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ATTTRACTOR NETWORK MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INCLUSION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GRID CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATORY INTERFERENCE MODEL; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PATH INTEGRATION FREE MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF ORGANIZATION MODEL; THETA RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PERIODICITY;

EID: 80051884800     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.07.023     Document Type: Review

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