Rats dream about places to visit

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3028, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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  • When the animals take a nap after seeing a food treat at the end of an Inaccessible path, the neurons in their brains representing that route fire as they snooze--as if they are dreaming about running down the corridor to grab the grub. Like people, rats store maps of the world in their hippocampi, two curved structures on either side of the brain. Putting electrodes into rats' brains as they go exploring has shown that different places are recorded and remembered by different combinations of hippocampal neurons firing together. These "place cells" fire not only when a rat is in a certain location, but also when it sleeps, as lilt is dreaming about where it has been