Volume 31, No 6, Jun 2021

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 31 Issue 6, June 2021: 605-606

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

A spatial map out of place

Adrien Peyrache^1,* , Adrian J. Duszkiewicz^1,2

¹Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
²Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Correspondence: Adrien Peyrache(adrien.peyrache@mcgill.ca)

The ability of mammals to navigate large and ever-changing environments requires sophisticated computations and representations that are usually thought to depend on the hippocampus and associated structures. In a recent study published in Cell Research , Long et al. report that neurons of the primary somatosensory cortex, recorded in freely moving rats, show various spatial correlates reminiscent of those of the hippocampal-entorhinal system, raising new questions about the prevalence of spatial coding in the mammalian brain.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-021-00478-w

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