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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Federico Stella ,
Bailu Si ,
Emilio Kropff  and
Alessandro Treves
Federico Stella
Affiliation:
Cognitive Neuroscience, SISSA, 34136 Trieste, Italy. fstella@sissa.itale@sissa.ithttp://people.sissa.it/~ale/limbo.html
Bailu Si
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. bailu.si@weizmann.ac.il
Emilio Kropff
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Neuronal Plasticity, Leloir Institute, CABA, C1405BWE, Buenos Aires, Argentina. kropff@gmail.com
Alessandro Treves
Affiliation:
Cognitive Neuroscience, SISSA, 34136 Trieste, Italy. fstella@sissa.itale@sissa.ithttp://people.sissa.it/~ale/limbo.html Centre for Neural Computation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Abstract

We show that, given extensive exploration of a three-dimensional volume, grid units can form with the approximate periodicity of a face-centered cubic crystal, as the spontaneous product of a self-organizing process at the single unit level, driven solely by firing rate adaptation.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 566 - 567
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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