Not so bird brained after all; pigeons care a great deal about how quickly they get a reward, and we found the neurons that carry that information! Pigeons, just like humans, prefer rewards they don’t have to wait long for. … Continued
In all mammalian brains, from humans to bats to rats, there are specialized neurons called “place cells“. These brain cells are only active when we are in a particular place within an environment. You have some place cells for your … Continued
The events of this post are all true (as far as I can remember) and began on the 5th of June. Everything was going well. Too well. Nothing goes well in science, especially not as well as things were going … Continued
This came about because I wanted to make a bar graph from a data set. In these data, each of my seven subjects contributed multiple data points. I wanted each bar that corresponded to a subject to be a unique … Continued