[danwills]

Only partway through the article but it was a small shock when the word 'rodent' turned up unexpectedly:

"...later, if the rodent reenters that place, the cell will fire"

Totally fair and normal of course I just had been imagining human or generic neurons/dendrites up to that point. The test species wasn't mentioned earlier as far as I can see!

[in-silico]

Earlier in the article:

> In 2014, when Magee attached electrodes to rodents to record their neural activity,

[danwills]

Ah thanks for correcting me! Guess I glossed-over it earlier on in the article, apologies!

[mobeets]

Good point, this is probably the author assuming a little more context on the reader’s part. The cases where you can record from neurons in humans are very rare (basically only in treatment resistant epilepsy), and most of the work on hippocampus uses rodents