One of the processes that help with the adaptation is called remapping… the brain reevaluates what is the most important and informative landmark in the environment and builds its navigation system ...

Cells in the hippocampus that signal the position of an agent in the environment. Each place cell is responsive to one (and only one) given subregion of the current space, in which its firing rate ...

Cells found in the entorhinal and orbitofrontal cortices that allow the agent to track their position in space by integrating information about direction and distance (Hafting et al., 2005). Megan ...

La neurociencia es un campo científico amplio que incluye varios tipos de investigación. Esta investigación abarca desde el nivel microscópico, como las interacciones básicas de las proteínas, los ...

When we think of animals that have advanced our understanding of the brain, a few usual suspects might come to mind: rats, mice, maybe even monkeys. But what if I told you that some of the most ...

A menudo, cuando hablamos de prácticas médicas del pasado, lo hacemos con cierto nivel de desprecio, horror y repugnancia. Estas reacciones no son irracionales cuando se piensa en cosas como las ...

El cerebro humano es extremadamente complejo y hay varios misterios que todavía tienen que ser descubiertos cuando se trata de la estructura y funcionamiento en organismos sanos. Abarcando desde ...

Arielle Hogan received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in French from the University of Virginia. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in the NSIDP program at UCLA. Her research focuses on CNS ...

Kate graduated from Scripps College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience, completing the cellular and molecular track with honors. As an undergraduate, she studied long-term ...

Arielle Hogan received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in French from the University of Virginia. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in the NSIDP program at UCLA. Her research focuses on CNS ...