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David Tank, scientific director of the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain, and Dmitriy Aronov, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, discovered a set of cells in the hippocampus that act very much like place cells. Instead of firing when the animal is in a specific location, these ‘sound cells’ fire when the animal hears a specific tone.