And what you see, for example, if the flag was where that cross was in a small square environment, and then if you ask people where it was, but you've made the environment bigger, where they think the flag had been stretches out in exactly the same way that the place cell firing stretched out.
比如现在你所看到的， 假设这面旗帜在如图中小四方形内的“×”的位置， 然后接着你问人们小旗在哪， 但实际上你已经将总环境的尺度扩大了， 结果他们所认为的旗所在的位置 也相应地向外扩张， 而这扩张的模式和“定位细胞”的一模一样。