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Single unit recording in the hippocampal and entorhinal cortices of freely moving rodents provides detailed information regarding the neural representations of spatial context. I will describe some of these experiments and the computational mechanisms they imply, which emphasise the roles of environmental boundaries and of intrinsic temporal oscillations in the theta band. I will then describe the implications of these findings for the mechanisms supporting memory for spatial context, and provide examples of electrophysiological, behavioural, neuropsychological and functional neuroimaging experiments designed to test the resulting predictions.