Spatial Cognition: Grid Cells Support Imagined Navigation

Joshua Jacobs; Sang Ah Lee

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.032

Spatial Cognition: Grid Cells Support Imagined Navigation

Curr Biol. 2016 Apr 4;26(7):R277-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.032.

Authors

Joshua Jacobs¹, Sang Ah Lee²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 1210 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA. Electronic address: joshua.jacobs@columbia.edu.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 1210 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA; University of Trento Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Corso Bettini, 31, University of Trento, 38068, Rovereto, Italy. Electronic address: sangah.lee@unitn.it.

PMID: 27046812
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.032

Abstract

Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex represent an animal's current location during navigation. A new study indicates that grid cells in humans also represent information about imagined movement and spatial orienting, suggesting that the entorhinal network has a flexible role in spatial representation.

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MeSH terms

Action Potentials*
Animals
Cognition
Entorhinal Cortex
Humans
Models, Neurological*
Neurons
Space Perception

Grants and funding

R01 MH104606/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States