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Size matters: How scaling affects the interaction between grid and border cells

Publicated to: Frontiers In Computational Neuroscience. 11 65- - 2017-07-18 11(), DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2017.00065

Authors: Santos-Rata, D; Zucca, R; Low, SC; Verschure, PFMJ

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Inst Bioengn Catalunya IBEC, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats - Author
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia - Author
Instituto de Bioingeniería de Cataluña - Author
Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems (SPECS). Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia - Author
Univ Pompeu Fabra, SPECS, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona - Author
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Abstract

© 2017 Santos-Pata, Zucca, Low and Verschure. Many hippocampal cell types are characterized by a progressive increase in scale along the dorsal-to-ventral axis, such as in the cases of head-direction, grid and place cells. Also located in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), border cells would be expected to benefit from such scale modulations. However, this phenomenon has not been experimentally observed. Grid cells in the MEC of mammals integrate velocity related signals to map the environment with characteristic hexagonal tessellation patterns. Due to the noisy nature of these input signals, path integration processes tend to accumulate errors as animals explore the environment, leading to a loss of grid-like activity. It has been suggested that border-to-grid cells’ associations minimize the accumulated grid cells’ error when rodents explore enclosures. Thus, the border-grid interaction for error minimization is a suitable scenario to study the effects of border cell scaling within the context of spatial representation. In this study, we computationally address the question of (i) border cells’ scale from the perspective of their role in maintaining the regularity of grid cells’ firing fields, as well as (ii) what are the underlying mechanisms of grid-border associations relative to the scales of both grid and border cells. Our results suggest that for optimal contribution to grid cells’ error minimization, border cells should express smaller firing fields relative to those of the associated grid cells, which is consistent with the hypothesis of border cells functioning as spatial anchoring signals.

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border cellserror minimizationgrid cellsnavigationBorder cellsError minimizationGrid cellsNavigationPath integration

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Frontiers In Computational Neuroscience due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2017, it was in position 16/59, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Mathematical & Computational Biology. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Neuroscience (Miscellaneous).

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-16:

  • WoS: 6
  • Scopus: 3
  • Europe PMC: 3

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-16:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 30.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 30 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 12.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 14 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Pata Santos, Diogo) and Last Author (Verschure, Paul).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Verschure, Paul.