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… 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 …

… has pinpointed exact brain circuits that associate the memory of an experience with a feeling about it. When his lab … could be manipulated to change a negative feeling about a memory into a positive one, messages from people with anxiety … ensemble, or “engram,” of cells that encode a specific memory. Upon pinpointing engram cells, the scientists could …

… 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 …

… and a member of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. The new findings, reported today in Neuron , could … the brain that are involved in vision, sound processing, spatial awareness, and executive function.  These recordings …