Kimberly L Stachenfeld

Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08729-1 Published online 12 March 2025 In the version of the article initially published, a data preprocessing error was introduced when audio signals were converted from a .dat to a .wav file format, wherein values greater than 1 were set to 1 and values less than –1 were set to –1, affecting 15.9% of audio data. All analyses and figures have been updated with the original high-quality audio data.

Abstract : Neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex exhibit multiple, periodically organized, firing fields which collectively appear to form an internal representation of space. Neuroimaging data suggest that this grid coding is also present in other cortical areas such as the prefrontal cortex, indicating that it may be a general principle of neural functionality in the brain.

Abstract Exploration, consolidation and planning depend on the generation of sequential state representations. However, these algorithms require disparate forms of sampling dynamics for optimal performance. We theorize how the brain should adapt internally generated sequences for particular cognitive functions and propose a neural mechanism by which this may be accomplished within the entorhinal–hippocampal circuit.