How the Animal Brain Deciphers the Locations of Animals Nearby (5 of 6) (IMAGE)

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How the Animal Brain Deciphers the Locations of Animals Nearby (5 of 6)

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Egyptian fruit bat. In this issue of Science, Omer et al. report on a subpopulation of bat hippocampal CA1 neurons that encode the spatial position of a conspecific bat, in allocentric coordinates. These "social place-cells" might underlie social-spatial cognition in bats and other mammals. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 12, 2018 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.B. Omer at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus."

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D.B. Omer <i>et al</i>., Science (2018)

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