Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1077-1084

  Yoon, Kijung ^a   Buice, Michael A ^a   Barry, Caswell ^b,c,d   Hayman, Robin ^d   Burgess, Neil ^b,c   Fiete, Ila R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRID CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84880922598     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3450     Document Type: Article

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