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Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex appear to represent spatial location via a triangular coordinate system. Such cells, which have been identified in rats, bats and monkeys, are believed to support a wide range of spatial behaviors. Recording neuronal activity from neurosurgical patients performing a virtual-navigation task, we identified cells exhibiting grid-like spiking patterns in the human brain, suggesting that humans and simpler animals rely on homologous spatial-coding schemes.
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We are grateful to the patients for participating in our study. We thank K. Lee, D. Wyeth, E. Wyeth, D. Pourshaban, E. Behnke and T. Fields for technical assistance. This work was supported by US National Institutes of Health grants MH061975 and NS033221.
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The experiment was designed by J.J., C.T.W., M.J.K., A.S. and I.F. Data were collected by J.J., C.T.W., J.F.M., J.F.B., I.F., M.R.S., A.D.S. and N.S. Data analyses were performed by J.J., X.-X.W., C.T.W., A.S. and M.J.K. J.J. and M.J.K. wrote the manuscript.
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Jacobs, J., Weidemann, C., Miller, J. et al. Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation. Nat Neurosci 16, 1188–1190 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3466
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