 Each place cell's maximum firing ratewith action potentials occurring in rapid burstsoccurs at the position encoded by that cell; and that cell fires only occasionally when the animal is at other locations.Within a relatively small path, the same cells are repeatedly activated as the animal returns to the same position.Although simple rate coding (the coding of information based on whether neurons fire more rapidly or more slowly) resulting from these changes in firing rates may account for some of the neural coding of position, there is also a prominent role for the timing of the action potentials of a single place cell, relative to the firing of nearby cells in the local population.