Cortical dissociation of spatial reference frames during place navigation
Patrick A. LaChance, Elaina R. Gross, Shruthi Sankaranarayanan, Michael Erik Hasselmo
The paper investigates how spatial reference frames differ between the postrhinal cortex (POR) and medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) during place navigation in rats, finding that POR neurons adapt to visual landmarks while MEC neurons maintain a stable allocentric representation.