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… , the director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the senior author of the study. The researchers … in the mice, which performed much better on tests of spatial memory than untreated mice did. The treatment also produced beneficial effects on spatial memory in older, healthy mice. Chinnakkaruppan …

… Professor in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, who co-authored the paper in Progress in … how higher-level cognitive functions such as working memory can rapidly, flexibly and yet reliably emerge from the … neurons for flexible cognition, a concept called “ Spatial Computing .” Other recent work from the lab has shown …

… the maze in its sleep – a key process in consolidating its memory. In the new study, several of the scientists involved … in open space. The ability to so robustly track the rat’s spatial representations in real-time opens the door to a … of place have helped to show that animals replay their spatial experiences during sleep and have allowed researchers …

… that helps the brain record memories of new locations. spatial memory circuits hippocampus … between the LC and CA3 are necessary for long-term spatial memories to form in CA3. “The selectivity of …

… or haven’t changed enough to be a new context hippocampus spatial memory bayesian modelling … hippocampus, the brain creates a new map for every unique spatial context – for instance, a different room or maze. But …

… of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. “If you remove astrocytes from a culture in a … in living animals wherever in the brain they want (spatial control) and with the timing of their choosing … the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technique to knock out with spatial and temporal precision two genes that allow …

… Circuit Genetics at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Pharmacological … control LC noradrenergic neurons in mice with temporal and spatial precision as the rodents engaged in three attentional … on a second behavioral paradigm, derived from the Posner spatial cueing task, widely used in human cognitive …

… so to understand how they produce brain functions such as memory, neuroscientists must track how their voltage … scholar in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory lab of Sherman Fairchild Professor Matt Wilson , is a … (BCS), whose lab studies how the brain encodes and refines spatial memories both during wakeful exploration and during …