Data for: Hippocampal place codes are gated by behavioral engagement

As animals explore an environment, the hippocampus is thought to
automatically form and maintain a place code by combining sensory and
self-motion signals. Instead, we observed an extensive degradation of the
place code when mice voluntarily disengaged from a virtual-navigation
task, remarkably even as they continued to traverse the identical
environment. Internal states therefore can strongly gate spatial maps and
reorganize hippocampal activity even without sensory and self-motion
changes.