The world around us is beyond complicated. One theory of how the brain deals with this complexity is by creating cognitive maps. In part one, we discussed the underlying ideas behind cognitive maps ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s easy to figure out what your brain looks like, but what is it actually doing? What does your brain’s activity look like? While we have many tools, like MRI, to understand brain structure, ...
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 ...