Grid cells

Grid cells

• Grid cells are located in the Entorhinal Cortex
• Grid cells are part of the orientation system in the brain.
• They have the same pattern in any environment
• measure distances and angles
• a few cells completely cover the environment

How do they fire?

• They always activate in a grid-like pattern.

• Activation pattern are hexagons

• firing relative to the cue card

• Neighbouring cells maintain phase and orientation relationships across different environments

• Another grid cell fires slightly off the pattern of the neighbouring grid cell. That means at every spot, one grid cell fires.
  

see also

Tags: neuroscience science
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there are also
Border cells
Head Direction cells
Speed cells
Place Cells

Source

photo: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Typical-visualization-of-a-grid-cells-firing-pattern-as-introduced-by-Hafting-et-al_fig3_291523339

Created: 18-06-24 19:10