The hippocampus is thought to guide navigation by forming a cognitive map of space.
Different environments differ in geometry and the availability of cues that can be used for …

Memories are thought to be attractor states of neuronal representations, with the
hippocampus a likely substrate for context-dependent episodic memories. However, such …

Introduction The mammalian space circuit contains several functionally specialized cell
types, such as place cells in the hippocampus and grid cells, head direction cells, and …

In many species, spatial navigation is supported by a network of place cells that exhibit
increased firing whenever an animal is in a certain region of an environment. Does this …

Mammals have evolved specialized brain systems to support efficient navigation within
diverse habitats and over varied distances, but while navigational strategies and sensory …

Spatial navigation and memory rely on neural systems that encode places, distances, and
directions in relation to the external world or relative to the navigating organism. Place, grid …

Place and grid cells in the hippocampal formation provide foundational representations of
environmental location, and potentially of locations within conceptual spaces. Some …

Two neural systems are known to encode self-location in the brain: Place cells in the
hippocampus encode unique locations in unique environments, whereas grid cells, border …

Path integration is a straightforward concept with varied connotations that are important to
different disciplines concerned with navigation, such as ethology, cognitive science, robotics …

The world has a complex, three-dimensional (3-D) spatial structure, but until recently the
neural representation of space was studied primarily in planar horizontal environments …