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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·January 15, 2025·8 min read

          How the Brain Uses Place Cells to Anchor Episodic Memories

          Researchers have developed a model explaining how place cells in the hippocampus anchor both spatial and episodic memories. Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex interact with hippocampal cells to create a scaffold, linking memories to specific neural patterns.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·December 10, 2024·7 min read

          How Sleep Shapes Our Brain’s Mental Navigational Maps

          A new study reveals how the brain forms cohesive mental maps of spaces and highlights the critical role of sleep in this process. While "place cells" in the hippocampus mark specific locations, weaker spatial cells stitch these points into a comprehensive cognitive map.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·February 29, 2024·5 min read

          Endocannabinoids Play Role in Spatial Navigation

          Researchers made a new discovery about how we navigate our environments, pinpointing a brain cell mechanism crucial for spatial orientation. This research reveals that place cells in the hippocampus, essential for creating mental maps of our surroundings, activate and release endocannabinoids to communicate position information.
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          ·December 22, 2021·5 min read

          Neurons in the Olfactory Cortex Link Smells to Places

          Neurons in the primary olfactory cortex play a role in encoding spatial maps, a new study reports.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·October 28, 2021·5 min read

          The Goal in Mind: Brain’s Internal Goal Map Helps Animals Precisely Navigate to Chosen Destination

          Study reveals a specific neural code for spatial goals, providing evidence for the brain's goal map that guides us to a remote location over space and time.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·October 18, 2021·5 min read

          How the Brain Navigates Cities

          Researchers say the brain appears to be wired to calculate not the shortest path, but the "pointiest" path, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·September 3, 2021·4 min read

          New Model for Solving Novel Problems Uses Mental Map

          The cognitive map allows people to compute on the fly with limited information to solve abstract problems.
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          ElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·June 8, 2021·4 min read

          First Glimpse of Brains Retrieving Mistaken Memories Observed

          Rat study reveals place cells in the hippocampus have the same patterns of activity whether they correctly, or incorrectly recall a memory. However, when the memory is incorrect, the activity begins later and is slower.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·February 15, 2021·5 min read

          Peeking at the Pathfinding Strategies of the Hippocampus

          Researchers 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.
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          This shows pyramidal cells in the CA2 of the hippocampus
          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·January 11, 2021·6 min read

          Brain Circuit That Encodes Timing of Events Identified

          Pyramidal cells in the CA2 region of the hippocampus are responsible for storing critical timing information.
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          ElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·July 31, 2020·5 min read

          To Distinguish Contexts, Animals Think Probabilistically

          The act of remapping an area can be mathematically modeled as probabilistic reasoning in rodents.
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          This shows the outline of a head and a city scape
          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·April 6, 2020·5 min read

          Memory cells that help us interpret new situations identified

          Hippocampal neurons that store abstract memories of prior experiences activate when new, but similar events take place.
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