How Navigational Goals Are Represented in the Bat Brain (IMAGE)

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How Navigational Goals Are Represented in the Bat Brain

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Photo of an Egyptian fruit bat. Sarel et al. report on a new functional class of hippocampal neurons in bats, which encode the direction and distance to spatial goals - suggesting a novel neural mechanism for vector-based goal-directed navigation. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 13, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Sarel at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "Vectorial representation of spatial goals in the hippocampus of bats."

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Steve Gettle

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