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Who moved my cheese (again)?

A study shows that spatial learning is accompanied by the reorganization of place fields of hippocampal CA1 neurons, and that this reorganization is subsequently reactivated in an NMDA-dependent manner for memory consolidation.

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Figure 1: Electrophysiological recording during the stages of memory retrieval, new acquisition and new recall interspersed with rest periods.

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K.J.J. is a non-shareholding director of Axona Ltd.

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Jeffery, K., Cacucci, F. Who moved my cheese (again)?. Nat Neurosci 13, 911–912 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0810-911

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