Topic: predictive ramping activity

Goal-directed navigation is a complex cognitive process that requires a precise relational representation of the spatial environment and its associated rewards. This process enables agents to choose optimal paths that maximize long-term rewards, which is essential for the survival of both humans and animals. While hippocampal place cells are traditionally linked to representing spatial location information, rodent studies have shown that they also exhibit predictive coding and reward-dependent place fields, suggesting their role extends beyond spatial representation. The Successor Representati