Topic: spatial cognitive maps

A major challenge in studying spatial memory is understanding whether and how different navigational strategies influence hippocampal spatial representations of the environment.We designed a spatial recency memory task with two variants: one requiring allocentric representations of location, the other entailing egocentric representations. 10 freely-moving rats were trained over 34 daily sessions; each day, rats learned and then recalled the position of a food reward among six locations. Each trial, animals entered the arena from one of four start locations, generating distinct origin-goal traj