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A brain circuit that cements the memory of socially learnt food preferences

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: How an experience results in a long-term memory has remained unknown. A circuit involving the posteromedial nucleus of the cortical amygdala in the brain is shown to consolidate memories for socially transmitted food preferences in mice using a gene-transcriptional mechanism without contributing to memory acquisition, storage or retrieval. A region of the mouse brain’s cortical amygdala consolidates memory of an odour it could smell on another mouse.

Source: Nature

DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-03012-1

Language: English

Topic: Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $12,290

OpenAlex ID: W4402661329

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