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Image shows diagram of how the hippocmapus recalls events.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·June 8, 2017·4 min read

Hippocampus Can Organize Memories for Events as Well as Places

A new study reports the hippocampus puts events into sequence by changing the neural code in the rat brain.

Image shows the location of the hippocmpus in the human brain.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 6, 2017·5 min read

How Learning in the Present Shapes Future Learning

A new study reveals how neurons in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampal neurons work together to help guide future learning.

Featured Neuroscience

·February 20, 2017·4 min read

How the Brain Remembers Fearful Experiences

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.

Image shows a rat drinking chocolate milk.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 26, 2016·5 min read

Brain Uses Backward Instant Replay to Recall Important Travel Routes

Using a chocolatey reward, researchers discover how rats form some memories.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 19, 2016·3 min read

Brain Files Memories As We Sleep

Researchers report on how memories formed in one area of the brain are replayed and transferred to a different area during rest.

Featured Neuroscience

·March 3, 2016·4 min read

Brain’s GPS System Tracks Location While at Rest

A new study fills in major gaps in research about the brain's so-called 'GPS system'.

Featured Neuroscience

·January 20, 2016·4 min read

How The Vestibular System Influences Navigation

Researchers report the horizontal canals in the vestibular system play a key role in helping us sense our direction.

Featured Neurology

·November 2, 2015·3 min read

Study of ‘Inner GPS’ May Aid Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

A new study could help improve understanding of memory loss and wandering behavior in people with Alzheimer's disease.

This is a generic image of neurons and synapses.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 3, 2015·3 min read

Hippocampal Circuit Abnormalities Linked to Learning Difficulties in Down Syndrome

A new study sheds light into a possible cause of learning difficulties in Down syndrome.

This image shows five panels shows a memory snapshot created by hundreds of place cells while the rat was physically stationary at the top of the 1.8 m track (black).

Featured Neuroscience

·July 15, 2015·4 min read

Watching Memories Piece Together

According to researchers, memories are more like separate but connected “snapshots” in the brain than uninterrupted video reels.

An old picture shows a man on a tight rope crossing Niagara River.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·October 19, 2012·4 min read

Researchers Explore How the Brain Perceives Direction and Location

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.