Cartographers of the Cognitive Map: Locus Coeruleus Is Part of the Guild

Bálint Király; Balázs Hangya

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.02.020

Cartographers of the Cognitive Map: Locus Coeruleus Is Part of the Guild

Neuron. 2020 Mar 18;105(6):951-953. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.02.020.

Authors

Bálint Király¹, Balázs Hangya²

Affiliations

¹ Lendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary; Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
² Lendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary. Electronic address: hangya.balazs@koki.mta.hu.

PMID: 32191855
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.02.020

Abstract

Noradrenergic cells of the locus coeruleus were associated with aversive learning and arousal. In this issue of Neuron, Kaufman et al. (2020) show that they also shape the spatial map after translocation of reward.

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MeSH terms

Cognition
Hippocampus
Locus Coeruleus*
Place Cells*
Reward