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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Influence of local objects on hippocampal representations: Landmark vectors and memory

   Deshmukh and Knierim · Hippocampus · 2013

   In rats foraging among objects, the authors describe CA1 'landmark-vector' place cells and object-location memory in CA1 and CA3, indicating hippocampal firing encodes how an animal's position relates to objects.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, 8 of 26 CA1 neurons that gained new place fields put them at a similar distance and direction from one landmark as the old field was from another.“Of the 26 CA1 neurons that developed new fields in the course of a day's recording sessions, in eight cases, the new fields were located at a similar distance and direction from a landmark as the initial field was located relative to a different landmark.”