Honeycomb maze reveals role of hippocampus in navigation decisions: Neuroscientists unearth how hippocampal place cells support flexible navigation in rats - Science Daily

Researchers have discovered that the hippocampus creates a vector-based representation to support animals to make optimal navigation decisions. The researchers report results which go a long way to solving the problem of how hippocampal place cells contribute…

Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London have discovered that the hippocampus creates a vector-based representation to support animals to make optimal navigation deci… [+5680 chars]

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