Before a rat avoids a place of which they hold fearful memories, the brain recalls memories of the physical location where the event occurred, researchers report.
A new study could help improve understanding of memory loss and wandering behavior in people with Alzheimer's disease.
The Who asked “who are you?” but Dartmouth neurobiologist Jeffrey Taube “where are you?” and “where are you going?” Taube is not asking philosophical or theological questions. He is investigating nerve cells in the brain that function in establishing one’s location and direction.
Using a chocolatey reward, researchers discover how rats form some memories.
Study shows how hippocampal cells can represent different hypothetical scenarios consistently and systematically over time. The findings shed new light on how place cells assist in decision making and imagination.
The act of remapping an area can be mathematically modeled as probabilistic reasoning in rodents.
A new study sheds light into a possible cause of learning difficulties in Down syndrome.
SCN2A, a gene commonly associated with intellectual ability, plays an essential role in memory formation and replay, a new study reports.
A new study reports the hippocampus puts events into sequence by changing the neural code in the rat brain.
Using a 'smell virtual landscape', researchers discover the mammalian brain can map our surroundings based on smells alone.
A new study fills in major gaps in research about the brain's so-called 'GPS system'.
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.
