{"id":427917,"date":"2018-01-16T11:31:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=178235e065bcf75f3910348a7158efc1"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:31:36","slug":"researchers-identify-social-place-cells-in-the-brain-that-respond-to-the-locations-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=427917","title":{"rendered":"Researchers identify &#8216;social place cells&#8217; in the brain that respond to the locations of others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether we&#8217;re playing a team sport or just strolling with our family through the park, we&#8217;re continually aware of the positions of those around us &#8211; and where each is heading. Scientists have, in recent decades, pinpointed neurons called &#8220;place cells&#8221; in our brains that encode our own location in the environment, but how our brains represent the positions of others has been a mystery. New Weizmann Institute of Science research in bats, which was published in Science, reveals a sub-population of neurons that encode the specific location of other bats that are flying nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether we&#8217;re playing a team sport or just strolling with our family through the park, we&#8217;re continually aware of the positions of those around us &#8211; and where each is heading. Scientists have, in recent decades, pinpointed neurons called &#8220;place cells&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427918,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427917\/revisions\/427918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}