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Hippocampal firing rates count

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Sun et al. discover that neuronal firing rates of hippocampal place cells code for periodically repeating events and that the rate code can flexibly transfer to new situations. These findings suggest that abstract neural representations of regularly occurring events may be foundational for performing complex cognitive tasks.

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Fig. 1: Firing rates of hippocampal cells keep track of lap count.

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Yuan, L., Leutgeb, S. Hippocampal firing rates count. Nat Neurosci 23, 597–599 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0631-9

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