Local expansion of the grid cell map during a goal-directed navigation task
Fabrizio Capitano, Celia Laurent, Vincent Hok, Etienne Save, Bruno Poucet, Pierre-Yves Jacob, Francesca Sargolini · FENS Forum 2024
The aim of this project is to characterize how grid cells code spatial information during goal-directed navigation. Previous studies on the effect of goal on grid cells activity merged goal location with reward, making difficult to conclude about the nature of the information (i.e. location or reward) integrated by the grid cells network. We used a continuous-goal directed navigation task which allows separating spatial goal from the reward. We found a local distortion of the grid map around the goal that only emerges when a halt inside the goal zone is required to obtain the reward. This indi
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