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Locally-ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex

Gily Ginosar
Ulanovsky lab, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Apr 29, 2021

When animals navigate on a two-dimensional (2D) surface, many neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) are activated as the animal passes through multiple locations (‘firing fields’) arranged in a hexagonal lattice that tiles the locomotion-surface; these neurons are known as grid cells. However, although our world is three-dimensional (3D), the 3D volumetric representation in MEC remains unknown. Here we recorded MEC cells in freely-flying bats and found several classes of spatial neurons, including 3D border cells, 3D head-direction cells, and neurons with multiple 3D firing-fields. Many of these multifield neurons were 3D grid cells, whose neighboring fields were separated by a characteristic distance – forming a local order – but these cells lacked any global lattice arrangement of their fields. Thus, while 2D grid cells form a global lattice – characterized by both local and global order – 3D grid cells exhibited only local order, thus creating a locally ordered metric for space. We modeled grid cells as emerging from pairwise interactions between fields, which yielded a hexagonal lattice in 2D and local order in 3D – thus describing both 2D and 3D grid cells using one unifying model. Together, these data and model illuminate the fundamental differences and similarities between neural codes for 3D and 2D space in the mammalian brain.

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