by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress Credit: Max Pixel, CC0 Public Domain The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a region in the frontal lobe of the brain known to be involved in decision-making and information processing. The lateral part of this brain region, known as the lOFC, has been identified as a particularly salient region for the...
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Reactivation in the hippocampus could support the consolidation of long-term cognitive maps
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress (Left) Hippocampal place cells imaged with two-photon imaging are (middle) sequentially active at particular locations as a mouse runs through the environment – each tick on the right graph corresponds to the activity of a particular cell on one of the 7 traversals shown. Cells and raster plots are color-coded...