Topic: future trajectories

The grid cells in the entorhinal cortex play fundamental roles in spatial navigation. However, it has been unclear whether they contribute to predicting an animal’s future location or determining its future trajectory. In this study, we performed large-scale extracellular recordings from the medial entorhinal cortex together with hippocampal CA1 of rats moving toward a destination in the square arena. We found a subset of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex that represent grid fields when rate maps are estimated based on future animal locations, but these cells did not show grid field b