UC Berkeley scientists uncover neural mechanisms behind long-term memory

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A new study from  Michael Yartsev’s lab, published in Nature, is providing new insight into the neural mechanisms involved in long-term memory. Yartsev is an associate professor of neuroscience and bioengineering at UC Berkeley.

This study marks the first time that researchers have recorded the activity of hundreds of neurons simultaneously in freely flying bats, yielding surprising new discoveries about phenomena believed to be involved in memory and planning known as neural replay and theta sequences. Read more from UC Berkeley News.