Shearing Explains Grid Asymmetries (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Shearing Explains Grid Asymmetries

Caption

When a fake grid pattern is subjected to shear forces along a wall, both deformation and rotation result, exactly as seen in the recorded grids. Right panels show the effect on a square grid, middle and left panels on a hexagonal grid pattern. Both the orientation of the grid axes and the ellipse that arises from the deformation are shown with black lines.

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Tor Stensola/Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

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