%0 Journal Article
%T Continuous Attractor Network Model for Conjunctive Position-by-Velocity Tuning of Grid Cells
%A Bailu Si
%A Misha Tsodyks
%A Sandro Romani
%J -
%D 2014
%R 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003558
%X The spatial responses of many of the cells recorded in layer II of rodent medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) show a triangular grid pattern, which appears to provide an accurate population code for animal spatial position. In layer III, V and VI of the rat MEC, grid cells are also selective to head-direction and are modulated by the speed of the animal. Several putative mechanisms of grid-like maps were proposed, including attractor network dynamics, interactions with theta oscillations or single-unit mechanisms such as firing rate adaptation. In this paper, we present a new attractor network model that accounts for the conjunctive position-by-velocity selectivity of grid cells. Our network model is able to perform robust path integration even when the recurrent connections are subject to random perturbations
%K Velocity
%K Neural networks
%K Network analysis
%K Neuronal tuning
%K Parietal lobe
%K Neurons
%K Fourier analysis
%K Transfer functions
%U https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003558