8-Year PhD Project Published in Nature Comms: New Body Map Found in Mouse Motor Cortex
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-14
A PhD researcher at Columbia BME announced that their 8+ year doctoral project has been published in Nature Communications. The work uncovered a newly discovered body map in the secondary motor cortex (M2) of the mouse brain, conducted with the Hillman Lab and the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute — a notable AI/neuroscience crossover finding.
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