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NEURON
Volume 94, Issue 1, Pages 83-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.03.004
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- NIH [MH-100349, MH-102841, MH-100354, NS-084324, NS-086947]
- Whitehall Foundation [20130571]
- Walter F. Heiligenberg Professorship
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The medial entorhinal cortex (mEC) has been identified as a hub for spatial information processing by the discovery of grid, border, and head-direction cells. Here we find that in addition to these well-characterized classes, nearly all of the remaining twothirds of mEC cells can be categorized as spatially selective. We refer to these cells as nongrid spatial cells and confirmed that their spatial firing patterns were unrelated to running speed and highly reproducible within the same environment. However, in response to manipulations of environmental features, such as box shape or box color, nongrid spatial cells completely reorganized their spatial firing patterns. At the same time, grid cells retained their spatial alignment and predominantly responded with redistributed firing rates across their grid fields. Thus, mEC contains a joint representation of both spatial and environmental feature content, with specialized cell types showing different types of integrated coding of multimodal information.
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