The brain's map of space: A new discovery about how our brains represent information

A new discovery about how our brains represent information

A new study led by Prof. Yoram Burak of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveils a unifying mathematical framework to explain how "place cells" in the hippocampus encode spatial information across diverse species and environments.

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