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SCIENCE
Volume 363, Issue 6427, Pages 635-+Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aav5404
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- LABEX-CORTEX of the University of Lyon [ANR-11- LABEX-OO42]
- Marie Curie Reintegration Grant [MIRG-CT-21939]
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (grant PEPII)
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche [ANR-08-BLAN-0088- Brain-GPS, ANR-17-0015-Navi-GPS]
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (grant PEPS)
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Concept cells in the human hippocampus encode the meaning conveyed by stimuli over their perceptual aspects. Here we investigate whether analogous cells in the macaque can form conceptual schemas of spatial environments. Each day, monkeys were presented with a familiar and a novel virtual maze, sharing a common schema but differing by surface features (landmarks). In both environments, animals searched for a hidden reward goal only defined in relation to landmarks. With learning, many neurons developed a firing map integrating goal-centered and task-related information of the novelmaze thatmatched that for the familiar maze. Thus, these hippocampal cells abstract the spatial concepts from the superficial details of the environment and encode space into a schema-like representation.
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