Single-Neuron Representations of Spatial Targets in Humans

The hippocampus and surrounding medial-temporal-lobe (MTL) structures are critical for both memory and spatial navigation, but we do not fully understand the neuronal representations used to support these behaviors. Much research has examined how the MTL neurally represents spatial information, such as with “place cells” that represent an animal’s current location or “head-direction cells” that code for an animal’s current heading. In addition...