Framing the grid: effect of boundaries on grid cells and navigation

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 594, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 6489-6499

  Krupic, Julija ^a   Bauza, Marius ^a   Burton, Stephen ^a   O'Keefe, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FIRING RATE; GEOMETRY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; GRID CELL; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; GRID CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84966546717     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP270607     Document Type: Article

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