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Happy head direction cell day y’all!

On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984.

Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)
January 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Whoa! Here’s Jim’s HD cell abstract from 1984, courtesy of John Kubie. 👇👇👇

Without John’s help, the original HD cell project “would never have been completed”.

You can check out John’s firsthand account of his classic remapping experiments here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM