A considerable amount of information has accumulated which indicates that the hippocampus and its anatomical connections are involved in providing the substrate by which many species are able to engage in behaviours currently classed under the rubic “Cognitive” (O’Keefe and Nadel, 1978). One subset of these “Cognitive” behaviours is an animal’s ability to identify where it is, where it has been,
... [Show full abstract] and where it is going, based on previous experience. This capacity to use space, based on an ability to form and manipulate a mental representation or map, is what this paper will be referring to when it uses the term “cognitive” (cf. Ellen and Anschel, 1981).