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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Neural mechanisms for spatial cognition across vertebrates

   Vinepinsky and Segev · Molecular Psychology Brain Behavior and Society · 2023

   A review of how single neurons represent position and motion in vertebrates beyond rodents, arguing for pooling information across species to find the algorithms behind navigation.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors argue that findings in rodents are unlikely to capture all the neural computations that support navigation across vertebrates.“Although rodent-based data are important, findings in rodents are unlikely to cover the full spectrum of neural computations supporting navigation strategies in the vertebrate kingdom.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors argue that focusing on rodents may miss that other species likely represent positions in ways that do not exist in mammals.“In addition, a rodent-centric view may neglect the fact that different species are likely to represent positions in the world in ways that do not exist in mammals.”