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Grid cells in an inhibitory network

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Grid cells have been proposed to reflect competitive interactions in inhibitory neural networks. Experimental results obtained using optogenetics to identify spikes emitted specifically by parvalbumin interneurons now constrain the mechanisms by which such networks could give rise to grid cells.

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Figure 1: Alternative implementations of inhibitory connectivity in attractor models of grid cells.

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  1. Yasser Roudi and Edvard I. Moser are at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.,

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