George Dragoi1, Susumu Tonegawa

  • 1The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. gdragoi@mit.edu

Nature
|December 24, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

ヒポカンパの場所細胞は,動物が新しい環境を探索する前に,連続して発火することができます. この"プレプレイ"現象は,以前の休息や睡眠が将来の空間学習のための神経活動を組織することを示唆しています.

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