Social Spaces: Place Cells Represent the Locations of Others

É Duvelle; K J Jeffery

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.017

Social Spaces: Place Cells Represent the Locations of Others

Curr Biol. 2018 Mar 19;28(6):R271-R273. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.017.

Authors

É Duvelle¹, K J Jeffery²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK. Electronic address: e.duvelle@ucl.ac.uk.
² Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK. Electronic address: k.jeffery@ucl.ac.uk.

PMID: 29558645
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.017

Abstract

How does the brain represent the location of others? Recordings in rats and bats show that, along with representing self-location in an environment, some hippocampal neurons are modulated by the position of another individual.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Hippocampus
Neurons
Place Cells*
Rats
Temporal Lobe