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Study identifies a new building block in the navigation system of fish; boundary vector cells in central telencephalon of goldfish enable unique encoding of position, documented here for the first time in the largest group of vertebrates

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Study identifies a new building block in the navigation system of fish; boundary vector cells in central telencephalon of goldfish enable unique encoding of position, documented here for the first time in the largest group of vertebrates

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Credit: Lear Cohen (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Study identifies a new building block in the navigation system of fish; boundary vector cells in central telencephalon of goldfish enable unique encoding of position, documented here for the first time in the largest group of vertebrates

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Article Title: Boundary vector cells in the goldfish central telencephalon encode spatial information

Author Countries: Israel, France

Funding: see manuscript


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