Connecting Multiple Spatial Scales to Decode the Population Activity of Grid Cells (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Connecting Multiple Spatial Scales to Decode the Population Activity of Grid Cells (1 of 3)

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The figure shows a rat in front of a grid cell's false color-coded activation pattern. Like this neuron, every grid cell responds to multiple positions in space that form a virtual hexagonal lattice tessellating the environment. These patterns are thought to constitute the brain's metric for space. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 18,2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Stemmler at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Connecting multiple spatial scales to decode the population activity of grid cells."

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[Credit: Composed by Johannes Nagele (LMU Munich) using data provided by Edvard Moser (NTNU Trondheim)]

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