Know your limits: the role of boundaries in the development of spatial representation.
In this issue of Neuron,Bjerknes et al. (2014) show that cells responding to environmental boundaries (border/boundary cells) are present as soon as rat pups can independently explore their environment. These boundary-based representations may thus provide a scaffold for other, later emerging, spatial representations.
Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, UK. Electronic address: tom.hartley@york.ac.uk.
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Department of Psychology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
Colin
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Lever
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