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1Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Biomedical Sciences, and Center for Neural Science and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|November 9, 2021
Abstract:
Assessing the quality of one's own memories is a core cognitive function, but it has been unclear whether rodents possess this ability. Evidence that they do has come from research using a new behavioural paradigm in which rats make temporal bets guided by memory confidence.

