hippocampal remapping
place cells have a tendency to change their firing patterns in different sensory contexts.
E.g. adding a mint scent to a room might change the firing pattern of a place cell, or stop it from firing in that environment alltogether.
Mathematically, the underlying process is factorization. Structural path integration is combined with sensory information to make sense of the environment.
Structural and sensory here can also be thought of as “where / how” and “what”, respectively. The hippocampus forms an association between the two.
“Whether the remapping is sudden or gradual depends on how the animal gets to different places.”
This remapping of place cells is not random, but influenced by grid cells.
There is a correlation between the degree of overlap of firing fields of grid cells and the firing fields of place cells in one environment vs. another.
References
How Your Brain Organizes Information - Can We Build an Artificial Hippocampus - Artem Kirsanov