Anwesha Das

Naive mice learn a 9-turn route in a reconfigurable 3D maze within about 20 rewards; mutants lacking neocortex and hippocampus also learn, remember and generalize, though early exploration is inefficient.

The paper demonstrates a domain-general neural signature of serial order memory in both motor and auditory sequences using MEG data.

The paper shows that micro-offline gains in motor skill learning are short-lived performance benefits driven by motor pre-planning, not replay-mediated offline learning.