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Researchers discover pyramidal neurons that gauge speed, location (46 notícias)

Publicado em 15 de setembro de 2022

Washington, Sept. 15 -- : A group of researchers has made an important contribution to scientists' understanding of the brain's navigation system by identifying a subtype of these neurons that can gauge speed with great precision, more than a decade after the role of pyramidal neurons in mental representations of space and location was discovered.

"In experiments involving animals, we demonstrated an association between the electrical activity of inhibitory interneurons and speed representations in the brain," Alexandre Kihara, a neuroscientist at the Federal University of the ABC in Sao Paulo state, Brazil, told Agencia FAPESP. Kihara is a co-author of an article on the study published in Scientific Reports, a journal owned by Springer Na...