Link between theta rhythm and ability of animals to track location probed

Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

New research supports the hypothesis that spatial coding by grid cells requires theta rhythm oscillations, and dissociates the mechanisms underlying the generation of entorhinal grid cell periodicity and head-direction selectivity.

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