Nature Communications (May 2017)

Perirhinal firing patterns are sustained across large spatial segments of the task environment

  • Jeroen J. Bos,
  • Martin Vinck,
  • Laura A. van Mourik-Donga,
  • Jadin C. Jackson,
  • Menno P. Witter,
  • Cyriel M. A. Pennartz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15602
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Spatial navigation and memory depend on neural coding of an organism’s location as well as large-scale knowledge of the environment, but how animals organize information in task-relevant spatial segments is not well understood. Here the authors show that, in rats, perirhinal neurons perform integrative operations, globally specifying where, in the task context, an animal is located.