The Neural Encoding of Space in Parahippocampal Cortices

Lisa M Giocomo,Yasser Roudi

doi:10.3389/fncir.2012.00053

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The Neural Encoding of Space in Parahippocampal Cortices

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As animals navigate through the environment, they use internal and external sensory cues to update their movements and successfully locate food or nest sites
Recent research on other functionally specialized neurons, such as medial entorhinal grid cells, has indicated a wider brain circuit is likely involved in the neurobiology of spatial encoding
In this Research Topic new experimental data, computational modeling, and discussion are presented with a focus on the mechanisms underlying the neural encoding of space

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As animals navigate through the environment, they use internal and external sensory cues to update their movements and successfully locate food or nest sites. Grid cells are neurons that fire in spatially specific locations and form a hexagonal pattern of firing activity that covers the entire environment (Fyhn et al, 2004; Hafting et al, 2005). In this Research Topic new experimental data, computational modeling, and discussion are presented with a focus on the mechanisms underlying the neural encoding of space.

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