Thursday 28 March 2019

'Free lunch' warps inner spatial map in rat brains and, by implication, human brains

(Stanford Medicine) Our brains' neural circuitry creates spatial maps as we navigate through new environments, allowing us to recall locations and directions. While it's been known for some time that we have these internal maps, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine to be published online March 29, 2019 in Science shows how, in rats, those maps get redrawn when the rats learn they'll receive a reward at a certain place on the map.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science https://ift.tt/2Wrmwn2

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