Rats String Together Memories (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Rats String Together Memories

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Each of the five panels shows a memory snapshot created by hundreds of place cells while the rat was physically stationary at the top of the 1.8 m track (black). The time difference between the first and last snapshot is a mere one-fifth of a second; the positions represented by the neurons are shown in bright colors.

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Reprinted with permission from Pfeiffer and Foster, <i>Science</i>, 349:180 (2015)

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