Turning heads to remember places.
Scientific Abstract
By eliciting a natural exploratory behavior in rats, head scanning, a study reveals that hippocampal place cells form new, stable firing fields in those locations where the behavior has just occurred.
Citation
2014. Nat. Neurosci., 17(5): 643-4.
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NDCN researchers Stuart Clare (WIN, left) and Natalie Doig (MRC BNDU, centre), together with Aylesford School teacher Sam Holyman.
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2024. J Neural Eng, 21(4).