The Representation of Space and the Hippocampus in Rats, Robots and Humans
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Experimental evidence suggests that the hippocampus represents locations within an allocentric representation of space. The environmental inputs that underlie the rat’s representation of its own location within an environment (in the firing of place cells) are the distances to walls, and different walls are identified by their allocentric direction from the rat. We propose that the locations of goals in an environment is stored downstream of the place cells, in the subiculum. In addition to firing rate coding, place cells may use phase coding relative to the theta rhythm of the EEG. In some circumstances path integration may be used, in addition to environmental information, as an input to the hippocampal system. A detailed computational model of the hippocampus successfully guides the navigation of a mobile robot. The model’s behaviour is compared to electrophysiological and behavioural data in rats, and implications for the role of the hippocampus in primates are explored.
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Place cells code for the position of the animal in space relative to certain landmarks.
“Place cells code for the position of the animal in space relative to certain landmarks, i.e., they fire at substantial rates whenever the animal enters a certain spatial field (152,868).”
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Background
- Authors
- Burgess, N., Donnett, J. G., & O ’Keefe, J.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Department of Anatomy and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, U. K.
- Venue
- Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 1998-08-01
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 7-8
- Pages
- 504-509
- ISSN
- 0341-0471 (ISSN-L)
- 1865-7125
- 0939-5075
- OpenAlex
- W629779751
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 0.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
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- Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- hippocampus, spatial representation, allocentric coding, place cells, subiculum, phase coding, theta oscillations, path integration, robot navigation, rat navigation, primates
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Electroencephalography, Hippocampus, Humans, Models, Neurological, Models, Psychological, Motor Activity, Nerve Net, Primates, Robotics, Space Perception, Theta Rhythm, Rats
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