Place Cell - wikipedia.org  ## Metadata - Author: **wikipedia.org** - Full Title: Place Cell - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cells ## Highlights - A **place cell** is a kind of [pyramidal neuron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidal_cell) in the [hippocampus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus) that becomes active when an animal enters a particular place in its environment, which is known as the [place field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell#Place_fields) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hn8e0qh4s9817ts285renzqb)) - Place cells are thought to play an important role in [episodic memory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodic_memory). They contain information about the spatial context a memory took place in ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hn8e3gjq16cbx939evasgx2h))