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=== Bats === Place cells were reported in [[Egyptian fruit bat]]s for the first time in 2007 by Nachum Ulanovsky and his lab.<ref name="Las-2014" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ulanovsky|first1=Nachum|last2=Moss|first2=Cynthia F.|date=2007|title=Hippocampal cellular and network activity in freely moving echolocating bats|journal=Nature Neuroscience|language=en|volume=10|issue=2|pages=224β233|doi=10.1038/nn1829|pmid=17220886|s2cid=9181649|issn=1546-1726}}</ref><ref name="Abbott-2018">{{Cite web|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-bat-man-neuroscience-on-the-fly/|title=The Bat Man: Neuroscience on the Fly|last=Abbott|first=Alison|website=Scientific American|date=September 2018 |publisher=Nature Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-01-03}}</ref> The place cells in bats have a place field in 3D, which is probably due to the bat flying in three dimensions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Yartsev|first1=Michael M.|last2=Ulanovsky|first2=Nachum|date=2013-04-19|title=Representation of Three-Dimensional Space in the Hippocampus of Flying Bats|journal=Science|language=en|volume=340|issue=6130|pages=367β372|doi=10.1126/science.1235338|issn=0036-8075|pmid=23599496|bibcode=2013Sci...340..367Y|s2cid=21953971}}</ref><ref name="Abbott-2018" /> The place cells in bats can be based on either vision or echolocation, which remapping taking place when bats switch between the two.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Geva-Sagiv|first1=Maya|last2=Romani|first2=Sandro|last3=Las|first3=Liora|last4=Ulanovsky|first4=Nachum|date=2016|title=Hippocampal global remapping for different sensory modalities in flying bats|journal=Nature Neuroscience|volume=19|issue=7|pages=952β958|doi=10.1038/nn.4310|issn=1546-1726|pmid=27239936|s2cid=23242606}}</ref> Bats also have social place cells; this finding was published in Science at the same time as the report of social place cells in rats.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Omer|first1=David B.|last2=Maimon|first2=Shir R.|last3=Las|first3=Liora|last4=Ulanovsky|first4=Nachum|date=2018-01-12|title=Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus|journal=Science|language=en|volume=359|issue=6372|pages=218β224|doi=10.1126/science.aao3474|issn=0036-8075|pmid=29326274|bibcode=2018Sci...359..218O|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2018-01-social-cells-brain.html|title=Researchers identify 'social place cells' in the brain that respond to the locations of others|website=phys.org|language=en-us|access-date=2020-01-03}}</ref>
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