Place cells may simply be memory cells: Memory compression leads to spatial tuning and history dependence.
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2018422118
Abstract: The observation of place cells has suggested that the hippocampus plays a special role in encoding spatial information. However, place cell responses are modulated by several nonspatial variables and reported to be rather unstable. Here,… read more here.
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