| Literature DB >> 17486102 |
Caswell Barry1, Robin Hayman, Neil Burgess, Kathryn J Jeffery.
Abstract
The firing pattern of entorhinal 'grid cells' is thought to provide an intrinsic metric for space. We report a strong experience-dependent environmental influence: the spatial scales of the grids (which are aligned and have fixed relative sizes within each animal) vary parametrically with changes to a familiar environment's size and shape. Thus grid scale reflects an interaction between intrinsic, path-integrative calculation of location and learned associations to the external environment.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17486102 DOI: 10.1038/nn1905
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Neurosci ISSN: 1097-6256 Impact factor: 24.884