Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Neuronal representation of environmental boundaries in egocentric coordinates

  • James R. Hinman,
  • G. William Chapman,
  • Michael E. Hasselmo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10722-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The hippocampus represents an allocentric map of space, however, motor movements used for navigation are defined in an egocentric framework. Here, the authors report that dorsomedial striatal neurons exhibit an egocentric representation of the boundaries in the environment.