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SUBMITTER: Krupic J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4576732 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krupic Julija J Burgess Neil N O'Keefe John J
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20120801 6096
The mammalian hippocampal formation provides neuronal representations of environmental location, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we report a class of cells whose spatially periodic firing patterns are composed of plane waves (or bands) drawn from a discrete set of orientations and wavelengths. The majority of cells recorded in parasubicular and medial entorhinal cortices of freely moving rats belonged to this class and included grid cells, an important subset that corr ...[more]