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Neural representation
Various parts of the brain contain representations not only of the sensory systems, but also of objects such as faces. For example, so-called place cells in the hippocampus appear to play an important role in the representation of space. Each place cell represents a specific location in the environment and becomes active when its owner is at that location. Another group of neurons, grid cells, fire in a regular hexagonal pattern that is interpreted as a metric grid of the environment. This grid provides a kind of coordinate system that place cells can use for location coding.
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Engram
An engram, also known as a memory trace, is a neural representation of memory content. It is believed that learning processes are based on structural changes in the synaptic connections between neurons.
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