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Place Cells, Grid Cells, and the Brain's Spatial Representation System

Moser, Edvard I., Kropff, Emilio, Moser, May-Britt·2008·Annual Review of Neuroscience

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More than three decades of research have demonstrated a role for hippocampal place cells in representation of the spatial environment in the brain. New studies have shown that place cells are part of a broader circuit for dynamic representation of self-location. A key component of this network is the entorhinal grid cells, which, by virtue of their tessellating firing fields, may provide the elements of a path integration–based neural map. Here we review how place cells and grid cells may form the basis for quantitative spatiotemporal representation of places, routes, and associated experiences during behavior and in memory. Because these cell types have some of the most conspicuous behavioral correlates among neurons in nonsensory cortical systems, and because their spatial firing structure reflects computations internally in the system, studies of entorhinal-hippocampal representations may offer considerable insight into general principles of cortical network dynamics.

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  • Some teleost spatial strategies necessarily involve complex learning and memory capabilities and require flexible representational mechanisms, the most remarkable of which is allocentric navigation based on map-like spatial memory.

    “Some of these spatial strategies necessarily involve complex learning and memory capabilities and require the concurrence of flexible representational mechanisms, the most remarkable of which probably is allocentric navigation based on map-like spatial memory”

    From Spatial Cognition in Teleost Fish: Strategies and Mechanisms (2021) · cites this paper as [74]

  • Such hypothetical memory representations presumably encode the spatial relationships between all known places and landmarks in a common allocentric reference frame or unitary global map, accessible as a whole, and can operate to infer spatial relationships between any represented elements.

    “Such hypothetical memory representations presumably encode the spatial relationships between all the known places and landmarks in a common allocentric reference frame or unitary global map, accessible as a whole, and that can operate to infer the spatial relationships between any of the represented elements.”

    From Spatial Cognition in Teleost Fish: Strategies and Mechanisms (2021) · cites this paper as [74]

  • The failure in the use of a strategy based on local cues after massive modification of the global shape of the surrounding environment could be indicative of the triggering of a global remapping that leads subjects to perceive the substantially altered experimental setup as a novel environment.

    “The failure in the use of a strategy based on local cues after the massive modification of the global shape of the surrounding environment could be indicative of the triggering of a global remapping that lead the subjects to perceive the substantially altered experimental setup as a novel environment”

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  • In mammals, allocentric navigation involves an extended cortico-hippocampal network that conveys highly processed visual and multisensory information to hippocampal circuits for transformation into 'world-centered' relational spatial representations.

    “In mammals, allocentric navigation is thought to involve the operation of an extended cortico-hippocampal network that conveys highly processed visual and multisensory information to the hippocampal circuits for further processing and transformation into “world-centered” relational spatial representations [74,76,79,188,189,190,191,192].”

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  • Place cells, hippocampal neurons that fire when the animal occupies a particular location, are proposed as the higher instance of a brain system that builds map-like spatial memory representations anchored in the external world, contributing to allocentric navigation.

    “The “place cells”, i.e., hippocampal neurons that fire when the animal occupies a particular location of the space, have been proposed to be the higher instance of a brain system that builds up map-like spatial memory representations anchored in the external world, contributing to the neural computations required for allocentric navigation [39,72,74,197,198].”

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Authors
Moser, E. I., Kropff, E., & Moser, M.-B.
Affiliations
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
  • Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (IT)
Venue
Annual Review of Neuroscience
Published
2008-07-01
Volume
31
Issue
1
Pages
69-89
ISSN
  • 0147-006X (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-4126
OpenAlex
W2123213117
Cited by
1,934
References
157
Citations by year
2026: 95 · 2025: 136 · 2024: 131 · 2023: 127 · 2022: 128 · 2021: 128 · 2020: 107 · 2019: 154 · 2018: 117 · 2017: 146 · 2016: 109 · 2015: 121 · 2014: 79 · 2013: 99 · 2012: 91
FWCI
4.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Annual Review of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Kavli Foundation
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Keywords
place cells, grid cells, spatial representation, entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, path integration, self-localization, spatial memory, spatio-temporal representation, cortical network dynamics, firing fields
MeSH terms
Action Potentials, Animals, Hippocampus, Humans, Memory, Nerve Net, Neural Pathways, Neurons, Orientation, Space Perception, Entorhinal Cortex

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