[Verse 1] Dorsal edge, the clock ticks quick, eight cycles a second flat, Grid cells small, tight little web, precision like a surgeon's cat. Slide on down the long axis, ventral pole, the tempo drags, Six hertz humming, wider fields, the map gets loose, the scale expands. Phase precession rides that rhythm, spike creeps early through the field, Dorsal timing's razor-sharp, ventral timing's less concealed — It smears, it drifts, it loses grip, the temporal code starts to bend, Same mechanism, different clock, that's the gradient, my friend. [Chorus] Тета, тета, вдоль оси течёт, Dorsal fast and ventral slow, that's how the rhythm goes. Тета, тета, фаза чуть плывёт, Weak modulation ventral — watch the signal, watch it flow. [Verse 2] Now split the highway, MEC and LEC don't share the same beat, Medial locks to gamma fast, nested tight, precise, complete — Theta-gamma marriage there, phase-coded, spatial, clean, Lateral runs a slower gamma, object-trace, not metric scene. LEC cares about the "what," MEC cares about the "where," Their oscillator conversations speak in different timbral air. Gamma coupling, theta coupling — think of them as tuning knobs, Two cortices, two languages, one entorhinal job. [Chorus] Тета, тета, вдоль оси течёт, Dorsal fast and ventral slow, that's how the rhythm goes. Тета, тета, фаза чуть плывёт, Weak modulation ventral — watch the signal, watch it flow. [Verse 3] Beed and crew, two thousand thirteen, sliced the tissue, watched it hum, Ventral MEC neurons stuttered, oscillation growing numb. Intrinsic resonance attenuates, the membrane's quiet drum, Less rhythmic, less synchronic, theta's whisper on the run. So the phase code turns unstable — call it labile, mark that word, Meaning shaky, prone to shifting, meaning "easily deferred." If the phase can't hold its handshake with the place field's rise and fall, Decoding where you are from timing gets a fuzzy, drifting call. [Bridge] So think it through, the exercise: weak theta, what's the cost? Phase precession needs a clock that never skips, never lost. Ventral clock is slack and sluggish, spike-time reads go coarse, Readouts lean on firing rate instead — a rate code, backup source. Position-from-phase collapses into noise you can't untangle, Вентрально тише, ошибка выше — temporal code starts to strangle. [Chorus] Тета, тета, вдоль оси течёт, Dorsal fast and ventral slow, that's how the rhythm goes. Тета, тета, фаза чуть плывёт, Weak modulation ventral — watch the signal, watch it flow. [Outro] Dorsal ticks, ventral drifts, the gradient tells the tale, Gamma splits by MEC, LEC, precision versus scale. Тета слабая — код лабильный, помни это навсегда, Weak theta, weak precession — that's the lesson, that's your data.
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