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Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat

Langston, Rosamund F., Ainge, James A., Couey, Jonathan J., Canto, Cathrin B., Bjerknes, Tale L., Witter, Menno P., Moser, Edvard I., Moser, May-Britt·2010·Science

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The Space in Your Head: Space, and events associated with places and spaces, are represented in the brain by a circuitry made of place cells, head direction cells, grid cells, and border cells. These cell types form a collective dynamic representation of our position as we move through the environment. How this representation is formed has remained a mystery. Is it acquired, or are we born with the ability to represent external space (see the Perspective by Palmer and Lynch )? Langston et al. (p. 1576 ) and Wills et al. (p. 1573 ) investigated the early development of spatial activity in the hippocampal formation and the entorhinal cortex of rat pups when they first began to explore their environment. Rudiments of place cells, head direction cells, and grid cells already existed when the pups made their first movements out of the nest. A neural representation of external space at this early time points to strong innate components for perception of space. These findings provide experimental support for Kant's 200-year-old concept of space as an a priori faculty of the mind.

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Authors
Langston, R. F., Ainge, J. A., Couey, J. J., Canto, C. B., Bjerknes, T. L., Witter, M. P., Moser, E. I., & Moser, M.-B.
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Science
Published
2010-06-18
Volume
328
Issue
5985
Pages
1576-1580
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
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journal article
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en
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Langston, R. F., Ainge, J. A., Couey, J. J., Canto, C. B., Bjerknes, T. L., Witter, M. P., Moser, E. I., & Moser, M.-B. (2010). Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1188210

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