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NEURON
Volume 73, Issue 4, Pages 789-802Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.12.028
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- Kavli Foundation
- Norwegian Research Council
- European Research Council [232608]
- European Research Council (ERC) [232608] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and medial entorhinal cortex (MEG) are important elements of the neural circuit for space, but whether representations in these areas are controlled by the same factors is unknown. We recorded single units simultaneously in PPC and MEG of freely foraging rats and found that a subset of PPC cells are tuned to specific modes of movement irrespective of the animals' location or heading, whereas grid cells in MEG expressed static spatial maps. The behavioral correlates of PPC cells switched completely when the same animals ran in a spatially structured maze or when they ran similar stereotypic sequences in an open arena. Representations in PPG were similar in identical mazes in different rooms where grid cells completely realigned their firing fields. The data suggest that representations in PPC are determined by the organization of actions while cells in MEG are driven by spatial inputs.
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