Table 1.

Place cell metrics across tilt‐slope direction conditions

	Uphill			Downhill
	0 °	15 °	25 °	0 °	15 °	25 °
Firing rate (Hz)	3.31 ± 0.25	3.63 ± 0.37	3.58 ± 0.38	3.81 ± 0.26	3.64 ± 0.33	3.23 ± 0.25
Peak firing rate (Hz)	32.7 ± 2.4	33.5 ± 3.4	36.6 ± 3.2	33.7 ± 2.3	36.5 ± 2.7	35.4 ± 2.5
Information score (bits/spk)	1.62 ± 0.08	1.57 ± 0.07	1.68 ± 0.06	1.62 ± 0.07	1.72 ± 0.08	1.71 ± 0.07
Sparsitya	0.24 ± 0.01	0.25 ± 0.01	0.22 ± 0.01	0.25 ± 0.01	0.23 ± 0.01	0.22 ± 0.01
Spatial coherence (r)	0.90 ± 0.04	0.98 ± 0.05	0.94 ± 0.05	1.10 ± 0.06	1.01 ± 0.05	0.94 ± 0.04
Number of place fields	1.30 ± 0.10	1.33 ± 0.12	1.23 ± 0.08	1.21 ± 0.07	1.21 ± 0.06	1.25 ± 0.07
Total fields/occupancy (%)	27% ± 2%	24% ± 2%	26% ± 1%	24% ± 1%	24% ± 1%	23% ± 2%
Main field/occupancy (%)	26% ± 2%	22% ± 1%	25% ± 2%	23% ± 2%	23% ± 1%	22% ± 1%
Place field aspect ratio	3.23 ± 0.32	3.13 ± 0.33	3.09 ± 0.40	3.31 ± 0.23	2.89 ± 0.16	2.85 ± 0.17
Infield firing rate (Hz)	12.4 ± 1.26	14.2 ± 2.01	14.1 ± 1.33	15.0 ± 1.31	15.8 ± 1.53	14.2 ± 1.34
Outfield firing rate (Hz)	1.08 ± 0.11	1.32 ± 0.14	1.18 ± 0.15	1.18 ± 0.09	1.16 ± 0.13	1.13 ± 0.10

^aindicates significant effect (p < 0.05) for tilt or slope direction (see text for details).