Topic: aversive experience

Remembering the context in which an aversive experience occurred is critical to safely navigating the environment. The hippocampus (HPC) has been implicated in the encoding of spatial information through the presence of place cells (PC) which are tuned to specific locations in space. As a population, PCs form a “cognitive map” of the environment that adapts to contextual changes through remapping. The dorsal and ventral parts of the hippocampus have different functional implications in spatial coding. While the dorsal HPC mainly processes spatial information, the ventral HPC encodes valence an