Albert Lee

HHMI Investigator, Associate Professor of Neurology at BIDMC. Neuroscience of memory & cognition.

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4/4 - For a longer summary and video see https://t.co/bfmA54LwJe. This work can help us understand the neural basis of mental simulation/planning, imagination, and memory recall.

[Chongxi Lai @ChongxiLai]

1/ Story time! Can rats control their thoughts? Can they think about a remote place distant from their current location, just like we do?

[Albert Lee @AlbertLeeNeuro]

1/4 - Rats can think about where they would rather be. See our bioRxiv preprint https://t.co/lszzGnOLlq. Amazing work by @chongxi_lai and @shinsuke255, in collaboration with Tim Harris’ group at Janelia.

[Albert Lee @AlbertLeeNeuro]

3/4 - They can also maintain hippocampal representations of remote locations. Here they move an object to a goal (again, in a random location) and hold it there: