Neurons in the hippocampus of Egyptian fruit bats modulate their activity during a spatial reward task depending on the identity of the human experimenter at the goal location. A separate subpopulation of neurons carries significant spatial information about the positions and identities of humans traversing the same environment while bats are stationary.
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This is a summary of: Snyder, M. C., Qi, K. K. & Yartsev, M. M. Neural representation of human experimenters in the bat hippocampus. Nat. Neurosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01690-8 (2024).
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Hippocampal neurons encode identities and positions of human experimenters. Nat Neurosci 27, 1639–1640 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01691-7
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