Welcome to all! ❤️​🐀​
Potential new followers: can we try something out?

- if you're a #Neuroscientist (of any status, yes, undergraduate students can be neuroscientists), could you answer with your neuro 'categories': Experimentalist, Computational, Philosopher, Fly, Human, Rodent, Whale, Tetrodes, Calcium imaging, fMRI, EEG, etc. This is so that I (and possibly others) can put you in a List! I'll share my lists once they have grown enough 😀​

- if you're not a Neuroscientist, this account will probably not follow you, but you are totally free to follow it, and also to tell us about you and any questions you might have about neuroscience!

- if you want to learn about neuroscience, I will try to post beginner-level explanations with the hashtag #NeuroForNewbies. Just an experiment...

Hi all! My first "neuro-focused" post 🧠​ has to be these beautiful #PlaceCells that I recorded in a #NeuroRat foraging for cocops in a rectangle. #Hippocampus

#NeuroForNewbies ⏬​(trying this out)

What are "place cells"? They are a category of neurons, first discovered in the brain of rats, that activate only in specific locations in a given environment. Each place cell fires at a different location, together forming a sort of map (#CognitiveMap) of all the locations that we know.

plot legend is described in the alt-text

(Edit: added hippocampus tag)