{"id":160759,"date":"2023-03-22T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/place-cells-how-your-brain-creates-maps-of-abstract-spaces"},"modified":"2023-03-22T06:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:25:14","slug":"place-cells-how-your-brain-creates-maps-of-abstract-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/place-cells-how-your-brain-creates-maps-of-abstract-spaces","title":{"rendered":"Place cells: How your brain creates maps of abstract spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iV-EMA5g288?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this video, we will explore the positional system of the brain \u2014 hippocampal place cells. We will see how it relates to contextual memory and mapping of more abstract features.<\/p>\n<p>OUTLINE:<br \/> 00:00 Introduction.<br \/> 00:53 Hippocampus.<br \/> 1:27 Discovery of place cells.<br \/> 2:56 3D navigation.<br \/> 3:51 Role of place cells.<br \/> 4:11 Virtual reality experiment.<br \/> 7:47 Remapping.<br \/> 11:17 Mapping of non-spatial dimension.<br \/> 13:36 Conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>_____________<br \/> REFERENCES:<\/p>\n<p>1) Anderson, M.I., Jeffery, K.J., 2003. Heterogeneous Modulation of Place Cell Firing by Changes in Context. J. Neurosci. 23, 8827\u20138835. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1523\/JNEUROSCI.23-26-08827\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1523\/JNEUROSCI.23-26-08827<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2) Aronov, D., Nevers, R., Tank, D.W., 2017. Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal\u2013entorhinal circuit. Nature 543719\u2013722. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nature21692\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nature21692<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3) Bostock, E., Muller, R.U., Kubie, J.L., 1991. Experience-dependent modifications of hippocampal place cell firing. Hippocampus 1193-205. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/hipo.\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/hipo.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/place-cells-how-your-brain-creates-maps-of-abstract-spaces\">Continue reading \u201cPlace cells: How your brain creates maps of abstract spaces\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, we will explore the positional system of the brain \u2014 hippocampal place cells. We will see how it relates to contextual memory and mapping of more abstract features. OUTLINE: 00:00 Introduction. 00:53 Hippocampus. 1:27 Discovery of place cells. 2:56 3D navigation. 3:51 Role of place cells. 4:11 Virtual reality experiment. 7:47 Remapping. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}