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Neurons couple up to make decisions

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The use of state-of-the-art techniques to study neuronal activity during a navigational task involving sound stimuli broadens our understanding of how neuronal populations produce complex behaviours. See Letter p.92

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Figure 1: An experimental system for analysing neuronal coupling in mice during behaviour.

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