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However, existing models assume a fixed and uniform distribution of place fields, despite experimental findings that place cell density is dynamically modulated by rewards and objects. Here, we propose a biologically inspired neural model in which predictive maps emerge from diverse entorhinal inputs. In the model, place cell-like representations are generated via non-negative sparse coding of medial entorhinal spatial signals and lateral entorhinal contextual and motivational signals, and are subsequently transformed into predictive maps using successor features. By coupling the predictive map to an actor\u2013critic framework, the model supports goal-directed navigation in continuous environments. Furthermore, the model reproduces experience-dependent restructuring of hippocampal representations, including object-centered overrepresentation of place fields in two-dimensional environments and reward-centered overrepresentation in one-dimensional environments. 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