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Comment by danwills

3 hours ago

Only partway through the article but it was a small shock when the word 'rodent' turned up unexpectedly:

"...later, if the rodent reenters that place, the cell will fire"

Totally fair and normal of course I just had been imagining human or generic neurons/dendrites up to that point. The test species wasn't mentioned earlier as far as I can see!

Earlier in the article:

> In 2014, when Magee attached electrodes to rodents to record their neural activity,