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Perception is the process by which the nature and meaning of sensory stimuli are recognized and interpreted. Perception can be influenced by attention and can occur subliminally, without conscious awareness.
An fMRI study suggests that adaptation to sensorimotor delays when touching one hand with the other dynamically alters the activity in somatosensory and cerebellar regions.
How the position of conspecifics is represented in the brain is not fully understood. Here authors show that the position of conspecifics is represented relative to self-position in the hippocampus of female mice, which is modulated by context and identity and improved through learning.
A mark test of self-recognition in mice reveals that self-responding ventral CA1 neurons underlie mirror-induced self-directed behaviour and are shaped by social experience with conspecifics.
Grid cells develop in rats soon after they leave the nest. Here, Ulsaker-Janke et al. show that preventing exposure to straight boundaries from birth delays, but does not prevent, grid cell maturation in adult rats.