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‘Speedometer’ neurons discovered in rat brains

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Nobel laureates identify speed cells as a crucial component of the mammalian navigation system.

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  1. Kropff, E., Carmichael, J. E., Moser, M.-B. & Moser, E. I. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14622 (2015).

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