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Scientists discover cells that filter and sharpen spatial signals

August 6, 2020 by

How do you keep orientation in a complex environment, like the city of Vienna? You can thank your brain's 'global positioning system' (GPS), the hippocampus, for this sense of orientation. To further understand its functions, scientists have analyzed single neurons of this GPS in mice. They discovered that so-called granule cells filter and sharpen spatial information.

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