Neuroscience: How is three-dimensional space encoded in the brain?

Nachum Ulanovsky

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.09.031

Neuroscience: How is three-dimensional space encoded in the brain?

Nachum Ulanovsky

Department of Brain Sciences

Weizmann Institute of Science

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Abstract

A recent study in the rat has shown that hippocampal place cells and entorhinal grid cells exhibit vertically-elongated firing fields, indicating that the rat's brain may encode the animal's elevation less accurately than its horizontal position.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R886-R888
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	21
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.09.031
State	Published - 8 Nov 2011

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General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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