title: A pathway for spatial memory encoding.
abstract: The medial prefrontal cortex has been shown to play a role for rodents in successful completion of tasks that require spatial memory, but the pathways responsible for the transmission of spatial information to the mPFC, and the nature and timing of such information, are unknown. Recently, Spellman, Rigotti, Ahmari, Fusi, Gogos, and Gordon (Nature, 522, 309-314, 2015) addressed these questions in an eloquent and ingenious series of experiments, which we review in the broader context of the neurobiology of spatial memory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McConnell Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824, USA. bgibson@unh.edu.
authors.forename: Brett M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McConnell Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mair
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008568:Memory; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex; D013028:Space Perception; D065852:Spatial Memory
keywords: Memory; Navigation; Spatial learning; Working memory