Neurons that Remember How We Got There

Neurons that Remember How We Got There

In this issue of Neuron, Daie et al. (2015) show that the eye velocity-to-position neural integrator not only encodes the position, but also how it was reached. Representing content and context in the same neuronal population may form a general coding principle.

How we got from there to here and back.

Edward H. Angle dominated orthodontic armamentarium, diagnosis and treatment planning for almost a half century until Charles Tweed successfully challenged his mentor's nonextraction mantra. The ensuing diagnostic regimen used by Tweed, however, proved to have serious limitations and clearly resulted in the extraction of too many teeth. This caused a subsequent deterioration of soft tissue appe...

How we remember what we can do

According to the motor simulation theory, the knowledge we possess of what we can do is based on simulation mechanisms triggered by an off-line activation of the brain areas involved in motor control. Action capabilities memory does not work by storing some content, but consists in the capacity, rooted in sensory-motor systems, to reenact off-line action sequences exhibiting the range of our po...

Health reform: remember why we got into this.

How Old Brains Got New Neurons

The brain is the command center of our bodies, integrating information from the periphery and providing sophisticated control over behavior. The brain stores memories and is considered to determine who we are. This concept goes hand in hand with an important feature of the brain: neurons are some of the few cell types in the body that do not divide once they have matured, meaning that the sets ...