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Hi all! My first "neuro-focused" post 🧠 has to be these beautiful #PlaceCells that I recorded in a #NeuroRat foraging for cocops in a rectangle. #Hippocampus
#NeuroForNewbies ⏬(trying this out)
What are "place cells"? They are a category of neurons, first discovered in the brain of rats, that activate only in specific locations in a given environment. Each place cell fires at a different location, together forming a sort of map (#CognitiveMap) of all the locations that we know.
plot legend is described in the alt-text
(Edit: added hippocampus tag)