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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 11, Pages 1448-1464Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4653
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- European Research Council (GRIDCODE) [338865]
- European Research Council (ENSEMBLE) [268598]
- Centre of Excellence scheme of the Research Council of Norway (Centre for Neural Computation) [223262]
- Kavli Foundation
- National Science Foundation [1631465]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [1631465] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC) [338865, 268598] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Since the first place cell was recorded and the cognitive-map theory was subsequently formulated, investigation of spatial representation in the hippocampal formation has evolved in stages. Early studies sought to verify the spatial nature of place cell activity and determine its sensory origin. A new epoch started with the discovery of head direction cells and the realization of the importance of angular and linear movement-integration in generating spatial maps. A third epoch began when investigators turned their attention to the entorhinal cortex, which led to the discovery of grid cells and border cells. This review will show how ideas about integration of self-motion cues have shaped our understanding of spatial representation in hippocampal-entorhinal systems from the 1970s until today. It is now possible to investigate how specialized cell types of these systems work together, and spatial mapping may become one of the first cognitive functions to be understood in mechanistic detail.
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