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474: No Such Thing As A Remote Controlled Cabbie

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Role of Play Cells in Neuroscience

There are particular cells in your brain that help you with navigation, and they found these in mice and rats. If there's one neuron that fires in this rat's brain, while it's in that location, it will not fire anywhere else. And actually what you can do is you can... You can elongate the zone in which that neuron fires by putting a rat into an identical room just stretched out longer. So it's like the northeast corner becomes bigger, so where this neuron fires also becomes bigger.

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