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Rats in Augmented Reality Help Show How the Brain Determines Location

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 11, 2019

Using augmented reality, researchers discover how rats recalibrate learned relationships between a landmark, speed, distance and time to create a locational 'map' in the brain.... Read More...

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Navigating Our Thoughts: Fundamental Principles of Thinking

Neuroscience NewsNovember 9, 2018

Researchers propose a new theory of human thinking, suggesting our brain's navigation system is key to thinking. This may explain why our knowledge seems to be organized in spatial fashion.... Read More...

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Bravery Cells Found in the Hippocampus

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 7, 2018

OLM cells in the hippocampus play a key role in risk taking behavior and anxiety, researchers report. ... Read More...

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Neurons Ripple While Brain Rests to Lock in Memories

Neuroscience NewsJune 5, 2018

Using a model commonly used in machine learning, researchers discover how the brain encodes spatial maps and stores information while at rest.... Read More...

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Gene Linked to Intellectual Ability Affects Memory Replay: Mouse Study

Neuroscience NewsJune 4, 2018

SCN2A, a gene commonly associated with intellectual ability, plays an essential role in memory formation and replay, a new study reports.... Read More...

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Putting Distinct Memories of Similar Events in Their Place

Neuroscience NewsMay 11, 2018

A new study reports, contrary to popular belief, place cells in the dentate gyrus do not remap. Instead, memory discrimination is controlled by increased co-firing of place cells and the neurons that organize which place cells discharge.... Read More...

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Brain Can Navigate Based Solely on Smells

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 27, 2018

Using a 'smell virtual landscape', researchers discover the mammalian brain can map our surroundings based on smells alone.... Read More...

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Modifying Memories During Sleep Could Reduce Trauma

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 8, 2018

A new study looks how it may be possible to help reduce trauma associated with bad memories while we sleep.... Read More...

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Brain Takes Seconds to Switch Modes During Tasks

Neuroscience NewsOctober 19, 2017

Switching between operational modes occurs dynamically according to the demands of the task at hand, a new study reports.... Read More...

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Schizophrenia and Memory Deficits: Biological Origins of Core Schizophrenia Symptoms Discovered

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 4, 2017

A lack of adaptability in hippocampal place cells could be key to memory deficits in schizophrenia, researchers report. ... Read More...

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New Brain Area Implicated in Navigation and Spatial Memory

Neuroscience NewsAugust 16, 2017

A new study reveals how patterns of neural activity in the retrosplenial cortex assist with navigation and spatial memory.... Read More...

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New Model for the Origin of Grid Cells

Neuroscience NewsJuly 21, 2017

A new study theorizes the development of grid cells depends upon the synaptic input from place cells.... Read More...

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Rats in Augmented Reality Help Show How the Brain Determines Location

Navigating Our Thoughts: Fundamental Principles of Thinking

Bravery Cells Found in the Hippocampus

Neurons Ripple While Brain Rests to Lock in Memories

Gene Linked to Intellectual Ability Affects Memory Replay: Mouse Study

Putting Distinct Memories of Similar Events in Their Place

Brain Can Navigate Based Solely on Smells

Modifying Memories During Sleep Could Reduce Trauma

Brain Takes Seconds to Switch Modes During Tasks

Schizophrenia and Memory Deficits: Biological Origins of Core Schizophrenia Symptoms Discovered

New Brain Area Implicated in Navigation and Spatial Memory

New Model for the Origin of Grid Cells