Shining a light on hippocampal remapping

In this issue of Neuron, McKenzie et al. (2021) test the degree to which pre-existing biases in hippocampal circuits constrict the encoding of new information via artificial induction of place cell remapping. Their results suggest that the hippocampal spatial map encodes new information via pre-existing latent place fields.

Automated summary

Research on hippocampal circuits indicates that the spatial map encodes new information via pre-existing latent place fields.