Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

被引:379
作者
Barry, Caswell
Hayman, Robin
Burgess, Neil
Jeffery, Kathryn J.
机构
[1] UCL, Inst Cognit Neurosci, London WC1N 3AR, England
[2] UCL, Dept Anat, London WC1E 6BT, England
[3] UCL, Dept Psychol, London WC1H 0AP, England
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
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10.1038/nn1905
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
The firing pattern of entorhinal 'grid cells' is thought to provide an intrinsic metric for space. We report a strong experience-dependent environmental influence: the spatial scales of the grids (which are aligned and have fixed relative sizes within each animal) vary parametrically with changes to a familiar environment's size and shape. Thus grid scale reflects an interaction between intrinsic, path-integrative calculation of location and learned associations to the external environment.
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