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The hippocampus is engaged in the processing of visual (allothetic) and self-motion (idiothetic) information for spatial memory function. Beyond memory, it is involved in cognitive coordination processes (Wesierska at al. 2005). We hypothesised that the hippocampus is also critical for the reorganization of spatial representations. To study this we used a place avoidance (PA) method to create homogenous...