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What about #learning? 🤔
❌ Targeted rats failed to learn the more cognitively challenging #outbound trials of a novel W-track task.
👉 In fact, targeted animals were so severely impaired that their choices could not be distinguished from a chance distribution 🎲

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Why focus on #locomotion? 👀
We see gorgeous spatial sequences ('theta sequences') while animals move (data example below from Joshi et al., 2023). These are thought to support #learning, but disrupting them *specifically during locomotion* has been hard.

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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

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