mesoscope imaging (VIDEO)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Caption

To see how cognitive maps form in the brain, researchers used a Janelia-designed, high-resolution microscope with a large field of view to image neural activity in thousands of neurons in the hippocampus of a mouse as it learned.

Credit

Sun and Winnubst et al.

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