Topic: task contexts

For an animal to obtain multiple resources in the environment, its navigation plans must be flexibly updated. This ability is thought to be supported by the hippocampus playing a pivotal role in not only mapping the animal’s own position but also replaying goal-directed paths. Whether and how spatially-tuned neurons in the hippocampus can also discriminate behavioral contexts targeting different destinations remain, however, unclear.By using a navigation task that requires frequent updates in goal locations, we found that, while a majority of place cells in the hippocampal CA1 maintained the s