Optimal configurations of spatial scale for grid cell firing under noise and uncertainty

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1635, 2014, Pages

  Towse, Benjamin W ^a,b   Barry, Caswell ^a,b,c,d   Bush, Daniel ^b,c   Burgess, Neil ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grid cell; Poisson noise; Spatial navigation; Spatial uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ERROR ANALYSIS; NOISE; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON RATIO; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GRID CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON NOISE; RAT; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; SPATIAL UNCERTAINTY;

GRID CELL; POISSON NOISE; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; SPATIAL UNCERTAINTY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84906921560     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0290     Document Type: Article

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