The concept of understanding our environment, functioning in spaces unfamiliar to us, and participating in tasks that we consider second nature is something that is being heavily researched currently. Simple tasks like shooting a basketball or remembering the location of your home are routine tasks are examples of everyday tasks. While humans and animals subconsciously participate in these tasks the reason we are able to do so is because the neural representations that occur in our brains.
One of the neural representations represents our ability to do these everyday tasks. But the other neural representations focuses more on our hippocampus. In Hartley's article, "Space in the Brain": How the hippocampal formation supports spatial cognition. The author discusses how spatial parameters are restricted and have firing fields, which carry spatial information about the source of sensory information.
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