Data for: Hippocampal place codes are gated by behavioral engagement

<p><span>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.</span></p>