How the Grid Cell System of the Brain Maps Mental Spaces (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How the Grid Cell System of the Brain Maps Mental Spaces

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A related type of brain cell, called grid cells, encode a variety of positions that are evenly distributed across space. This results in a kind of honeycomb pattern filling the space of parts of the hippocampus.

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