[2] Spatial view cells can be characterized by the following features:[3] The spatial view cells that respond in the absence of visual cues are generally found in the Cornu Ammonis area 1, the parahippocampal gyrus, and the presubiculum, while the ones that do not respond are found in the Cornu Ammonis region 3.
The cells found in the CA1, parahippocampal gyrus, and presubiculum regions often provide a longer response even after the stimulus is removed for up to several minutes in complete darkness.
These sorts of memories would be useful for spatial navigation in which the primates visualize everything in an allocentric, or worldly manner that allows them to convey directions to others without physically going through the entire route.
Some clinical symptoms present in patients with damage to the central nervous system include: fever, altered mental status, and neck stiffness.
It has been shown that posterior para-hippocampal lesions in macaques impair even a simple type of object-place learning in which only one pair of unique stimuli are needed for memory.
[10] Another illness that reflects signs of spatial view damage is fornix lesions that impair conditional left–right discrimination learning.
[11] Current research shows that the maximum firing rate of spatial view cells is obtained when the test agent is allowed to explore the environment freely.
Tests in which the monkey was not allowed to have active locomotion provided very few results of spatial view cells being detected in the hippocampus.
Majority of the experiments conducted for spatial view cells involved the use of macaque monkeys as test subjects.
Spatial view cells have been shown to respond even in the dark without any visual cues as long as the test subject was facing in the proper direction.
Continuous attractor neural networks, also known as CANN, are routinely used when studying spatial view cells from an idiothetic stand point.