How to build a grid cell

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1635, 2014, Pages

  Schmidt Hieber, Christoph ^a   Häusser, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Grid cell; Neural circuit; Patch clamp; Path integration; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAPPING; NEUROLOGY; SIGNALING;

EID: 84890947318     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0520     Document Type: Review

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