Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

A hierarchical anti-Hebbian network model for the formation of spatial cells in three-dimensional space

  • Karthik Soman,
  • Srinivasa Chakravarthy,
  • Michael M. Yartsev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06441-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Neurons in the hippocampal formation encode diverse spatial properties. Here, the authors present a hierarchical network model for 3D spatial navigation that accounts for the observed neuronal representations and predict as yet unreported cell types with planar selectivity.