Geometry as a Guide: Enclosure Effects on Spatial Mapping (Commentary on Xu et al. 2024) Geometry, rather than path integration, plays a central role in cognitive map formation. The interaction between grid and place cells relates to geometry coding. Experiments focusing on spatial navig...

Interesting commentary onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... on a paper that was published a little while ago (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...) which claimed mice were taking shortcuts based on self-motion information alone.

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