Learning and memory articles from across Nature Portfolio

EphrinB2 regulates the expression of excitatory amino acid transporter 1 and is required in excitatory neurons and astrocytes of the basolateral amygdala to form long-term fear memory.

Layer-specific imaging of the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reveals distinct laminar responses to working memory load and dynamic coding of working memory trial phases.

Study identifies 'predictive grid cells' in the rat entorhinal cortex that encode projected future locations.

Bats, the only flying mammals, comprise almost 25% of mammalian species. They are excellent navigators, highly social, and extremely long-lived. Their sense of echolocation has been studied for many years — but many species possess also excellent vision and olfaction. In recent years, bats have emerged as new models for neurobiology of navigation, social neuroscience, aging, and immunity.

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.

Sabine Krabbe describes a 1993 study of classical conditioning in the honeybee that provided early insights into the mechanisms of predictive learning.

In this Journal Club, Adrien Peyrache highlights a 1998 paper that showed memory formation as a dynamic process involving multiple brain areas.