Place cells, which fire when the brain recognizes a corresponding geographical landmark (like your house, or the Space Needle) [offer] a two-dimensional map of familiar environments [...]
Grid cells ... are not tied to particular places — but are adjusted as needed to mark off the space around us [...]
Now, researchers from University College London have shown how grid cells help us combine mental maps, joining rooms into a house, blocks into a neighborhood and neighborhoods into a city.
— nextcity.org
Some background on the Nobel Prize-winning medical research can be found here: Nobel Prize in Medicine Is Awarded to Three Who Discovered Brain’s ‘Inner GPS’
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