| Literature DB >> 16309947 |
Kathryn J Jeffery1, Neil Burgess.
Abstract
A network of brain areas collectively represent location, but the underlying nature of this "cognitive map" has remained elusive. A recent study reports that the activity patterns of some entorhinal cortical neurons form a remarkably regular array of evenly spaced peaks across the surface of the environment. These "grid cells" might be the basis of a metric used for calculating position, and their discovery could greatly advance our understanding of how navigational computations are performed.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16309947 DOI： 10.1016/j.tics.2005.11.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Cogn Sci ISSN： 1364-6613 Impact factor: 20.229