title: Neuroscience: how is three-dimensional space encoded in the brain?
abstract: A recent study in the rat has shown that hippocampal place cells and entorhinal grid cells exhibit vertically-elongated firing fields, indicating that the rat's brain may encode the animal's elevation less accurately than its horizontal position.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. nachum.ulanovsky@weizmann.ac.il
authors.forename: Nachum
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ulanovsky
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D016880:Anisotropy; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000502:physiology*; D018728:Entorhinal Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D009949:Orientation; D051381:Rats / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception