Hippocampal Place Cells Encode Local Surface-Texture Boundaries.

ABSTRACT: The cognitive map is often assumed to be a Euclidean map that isometrically represents the real world (i.e., the Euclidean distance between any two locations in the physical world should be preserved on the cognitive map). However, accumulating evidence suggests that environmental boundaries can distort the mental representations of physical space. For example, the distance between two locations can be remembered as longer than the true physical distance if the locations are separated by a boundary. While this overestimation is observed under different experimental conditions, even when the boundary is formed by flat surface cues, its physiological basis is not well understood. We examined the neural representation of flat surface cue boundaries, and of the space segregated by these bounda

SUBMITTER: Wang CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7259364 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature