border cell

…as head direction cells and border cells, that were involved in spatial representation. Head direction cells were found to transmit signals when an animal positioned its head in a specific direction, and border cells were discovered to transmit signals about an environment’s edges and boundaries. Subsequent research uncovered interactions between…

…an animal’s head direction, and border cells, which transmitted information about the boundaries of an animal’s environment. They also found that grid cells, head direction cells, and border cells interacted with place cells in the hippocampus to determine orientation and navigation. The spatial representation system was described as an “inner…

Boundary cells, which are found in brain areas that provide input to the hippocampus, increase their firing at a preferred distance from a specific boundary. As such, a small number of boundary cells can provide sufficient information to cause place cells to fire in their…