Question

The research presented by Dr. Burgess is almost entirely based on rat experiments. Contrast the ways that rats move around in their environments (time of day, senses available to them) to how humans do the same. Do you think that the ways the hippocampus encodes spatial information (place, head direction, grid cells) would be different in humans relative to rats? Explain why or why not in some detail.

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Hippocampus in Mammals have been found associated with encoding of special information for example where they are, their head direction and grid cells. The functionality of the part of the brain called hippocampus shares similar features when it comes to human beings as in rats. This is the reason why many researchers use rats as an example to demonstrate behaviour of human beings when it comes to special recognition and understanding. However the difference in size between rights and human beings make their environment vastly different and also so their movement patterns however that's have been known to show characteristics that are similar to human beings when it comes to movement. This can be understood with the example of how rights are able to recognise the pattern of human actions throughout the day so that they can figure out when they can have a chance to to explore the household for or their food requirements when human beings are not around.