A novel instructive function for the entorhinal cortex found

Researchers have found the mechanistic steps underlying a brand new sort of synaptic plasticity known as behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP). The research reveals how the entorhinal cortex (EC) sends instructive indicators to the hippocampus — the mind area important for spatial navigation, reminiscence encoding, and consolidation — and directs it to particularly re-organize the situation and exercise of a particular subset of its neurons to attain altered conduct in response to its altering atmosphere and spatial cues.