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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Hippocampal spatial view cells, place cells, and concept cells: View representations

   Rolls · Hippocampus · 2023

   A commentary on a Hippocampus special issue arguing that spatial view cells in primates, including humans, support memory and navigation, and comparing them with place cells, rodent findings and concept cells.

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   1. UncheckedHuman memory and navigation normally rely on visible landmarks 'out there', encoded by spatial view cells, rather than on unmarked places identified by distant cues.“Second, memory and navigation in humans are normally related to the visual cues encoded by spatial view cells that define a location “out there” such as a building, hill, and so forth, not to an unmarked place without local cues and identified only by distant environmental/room cues.”
   2. Unchecked“Third, “mixed” representations, for example of particular combinations of spatial view and place, can arise if the training has been for only some combinations of place and view, for that is what can then be learned by the hippocampus.”