Are we born with a sense of space? 🧠
A new preprint from the #MoserGroup suggests that the brain’s internal navigation system 🍩 begins forming before young animals actively explore the world.
🧵(1:5) Have a look at the preprint here 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In a new study out in @pnas.org, the #MoserGroup recorded thousands of neurons in the #hippocampus of freely moving mice using #Mini2P and asked a simple question: Is the brain’s internal map laid out in the same orderly way as physical space, where nearby cells represent nearby locations?
In a new study out in @pnas.org, the #MoserGroup recorded thousands of neurons in the #hippocampus of freely moving mice using #Mini2P and asked a simple question: Is the brain’s internal map laid out in the same orderly way as physical space, where nearby cells represent nearby locations?
