A principle of economy predicts the functional architecture of grid cells

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue September, 2015, Pages

  Wei, Xue Xin ^a   Prentice, Jason ^b   Balasubramanian, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL COUNT; CODING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GEOMETRY; GRID CELL; INTUITION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84945904962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.08362     Document Type: Article

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