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FeaturedNeuroscience·February 15, 2021·5 min readPeeking at the Pathfinding Strategies of the HippocampusResearchers observed hippocampal place cell changes in animal experiments of cue-poor and cue-rich spatial environments. The findings have implications for the treatment of brain disorders and the development of new AI technologies.Read More