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SUBMITTER: LaChance PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7063980 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
LaChance Patrick A PA Todd Travis P TP Taube Jeffrey S JS
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20190701 6449
A topographic representation of local space is critical for navigation and spatial memory. In humans, topographic spatial learning relies upon the parahippocampal cortex, damage to which renders patients unable to navigate their surroundings or develop new spatial representations. Stable spatial signals have not yet been observed in its rat homolog, the postrhinal cortex. We recorded from single neurons in the rat postrhinal cortex whose firing reflects an animal's egocentric relationship to the ...[more]