Turning heads to remember places.
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By eliciting a natural exploratory behavior in rats, head scanning, a study reveals that hippocampal place cells form new, stable firing fields in those locations where the behavior has just occurred.
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Turning heads to remember places.
Scientific Abstract
By eliciting a natural exploratory behavior in rats, head scanning, a study reveals that hippocampal place cells form new, stable firing fields in those locations where the behavior has just occurred.
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2014. Nat. Neurosci., 17(5): 643-4.
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