title: Street View of the Cognitive Map.
abstract: To understand the origins of spatial navigational signals, Acharya et al. record the activity of hippocampal neurons in rats running in open two-dimensional environments in both the real world and in virtual reality. They find that a subset of hippocampal neurons have directional tuning that persists in virtual reality, where vestibular cues are absent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, UK.
authors.forename: Cian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: O'Donnell
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92161, USA. Electronic address: sejnowski@salk.edu.
authors.forename: Terrence J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Sejnowski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male