Human brain cells are able to include spatial information in their memories, which enables people to recall experiences that happen in the same place.
Research participants played a video game where they had to deliver items in a fictional town, and had to tell researchers afterwards what items they delivered. Researchers found the neurons associated with a particular region of the neural map activated immediately before a participant named the item.
The findings suggest the spatial and episodic memory functions of the hippocampus are intimately related.
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