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Circuits supporting the grid

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Two studies show that local inhibitory connectivity and hippocampal excitatory input support the spatial firing patterns of entorhinal grid cells, providing support for continuous attractor model of grid cell firing.

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Figure 1: Cellular components of a grid cell network.

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  1. Matthew Lovett-Barron and Attila Losonczy are in the Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,

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  2. Attila Losonczy is also at the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,

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