Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: Place cells dynamically refine grid cell activities to reduce error accumulation during path integration in a continuous attractor model
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-25863-2
Figure Lengend Snippet: Place field input to grid cells enabled error reduction for path integration. ( A ) Schematics of the place-grid model (further detailed in Suppl. Fig. ). Scenes obtained from Google DeepMind Lab open source software ( https://www.deepmind.com/open-source/deepmind-lab) . ( B ) Example of the “activity packet” (bump) for the grid cell network considering the dorsal to ventral modules individually. The squared dynamical space is represented by the 20 × 20 grid cells. ( C ) Example of the estimated trajectories made by the grid cell modules during an S1 movement across the arena for 1000-time steps at the top row with place field’s input. To evidence that the error accumulation deviates the estimated position from the actual trajectory, the bottom row represents the prediction of each module without place fields’ input for a short trajectory only (100-time steps; red trace) from the starting position (see Supp. Fig. for the whole trajectory). Plots indicate a better prediction of the actual animal’s trajectory when place field inputs are given to grid cells. ( D ) The same trajectories as previously shown for the ventral module were magnified for comparison purposes. The green dot represents the starting position, the magenta dot indicates the predicted trajectory ending, and the pink one is the actual ending position. Asterix represents the places where the activities of grid cells across modules could enable place fields. ( E ) An example of place field centers that emerged during the short trajectory is depicted in panned ( D ). ( F , I ) The Euclidean distance error measure compared the estimated and the actual trajectory for dorsal (module 1) to ventral (module 5) modules. Plots indicate that the distance was higher in ( I ) when place field information to the grid cell network was absent. ( G , J ) The measure of the variance across estimates showed a similar observation. ( H , K ) The estimated error was lower when place field input was provided ( H ) compared to the absence of input ( K ). The inset numbers represent mean ± sem for the associated data for all the panels. All panels except for ( A ) were made using custom code in Matlab R2016b ( https://www.mathworks.com/ ). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ).
Article Snippet: All data analyses and scripting reported in this manuscript were made through custom code using Matlab R2016b.
Techniques: Software, Activity Assay, Comparison