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NEUROSCIENCE: Hippocampal Cells Help Rats Think Ahead
Karen Heyman
In the 7 November issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, neuroscientists use electrodes implanted into the brains of rats to capture, on the scale of single neurons, rodents thinking ahead about their routes in a maze.