Modeling the influence of optic flow on grid cell firing in the absence of other cues1

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 475-493

  Raudies, Florian ^a   Mingolla, Ennio ^a   Hasselmo, Michael E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Gaussian noise model; Grid cell firing; Optic flow; Self motion; Spherical camera; Visual image motion

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); OPTICAL FLOWS; RATS;

ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GAUSSIAN NOISE MODEL; GRID CELL FIRING; GRID CELLS; IMAGE MOTION; OPTIC FLOW; SELF MOTION; SPHERICAL CAMERA; VISUAL IMAGE; VISUAL IMAGE MOTION;

CAMERAS;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAZE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA IMAGE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 84874115888     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-012-0396-6     Document Type: Article

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