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,