This project has been in the making for over half a decade and has been an active collaboration with the amazing Hiroshi Ito. Also, a big shout-out to my co-authors, Marjan Mozaffarilegha, Ipek Bölükbaşı, and Cansu Üstüner - without whom this work wouldn't have been possible.

And finally, the formation of this OFC spatial map doesn't require the hippocampus or the medial entorhinal cortex, making it an independent spatial mapping system in the brain.

The most remarkable feature of this map is that it remains largely stable when the spatial context is changed (such as changing the experimental room or the shape of the arena), rendering it a schematic map of space.