The shape of activity | Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex fire in a hexagonal pattern of locations, allowing mapping of an individual’s position in an

environment. Recurrently connected continuous attractor networks (CANs) may underlie this pattern, but to date, it has not been clear whether grid-cell networks exhibit continuous attractor

dynamics. Gardner et al. recorded from a large number of grid cells in freely moving rats and found that the population activity from a single grid-cell module resided on a toroidal

manifold, as predicted by a 2D CAN model, with positions on the torus relating to locations in the environment. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS

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FAQs * Contact customer support REFERENCES ORIGINAL ARTICLE * Gardner, R. J. et al. Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells. _Nature_

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