Building a Cognitive Map Through Self-motion

Overview

Journal Elife

Specialty Biology

Date 2024 Nov 25

PMID 39585323

Authors

Bharath Krishnan

Noah Cowan

Affiliations

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Abstract

Mice can generate a cognitive map of an environment based on self-motion signals when there is a fixed association between their starting point and the location of their goal.

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