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Rats in Augmented Reality Help Show How the Brain Determines Location

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 11, 2019

Using augmented reality, researchers discover how rats recalibrate learned relationships between a landmark, speed, distance and time to create a locational 'map' in the brain.... Read More...

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Navigating Our Thoughts: Fundamental Principles of Thinking

Neuroscience NewsNovember 9, 2018

Researchers propose a new theory of human thinking, suggesting our brain's navigation system is key to thinking. This may explain why our knowledge seems to be organized in spatial fashion.... Read More...

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How the Brain’s Grid System Maps Mental Spaces

Neuroscience NewsOctober 14, 2018

An international team of researchers have been able to demonstrate, with electrophysiological evidence, the existence of grid-like activity in the human brain.... Read More...

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How the Brain Experiences Time

Neuroscience NewsAugust 29, 2018

Researchers have identified a network of cells in the entorhinal cortex that appear to play a key role into putting experience into a temporal context.... Read More...

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Why Older People Might Lose Their Way

Neuroscience NewsMarch 16, 2018

Researchers report the firing patterns of grid cells are less stable in older adults. This, they say, could be why older people have more problems with spatial navigation than younger people.... Read More...

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Brain Takes Seconds to Switch Modes During Tasks

Neuroscience NewsOctober 19, 2017

Switching between operational modes occurs dynamically according to the demands of the task at hand, a new study reports.... Read More...

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Schizophrenia and Memory Deficits: Biological Origins of Core Schizophrenia Symptoms Discovered

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 4, 2017

A lack of adaptability in hippocampal place cells could be key to memory deficits in schizophrenia, researchers report. ... Read More...

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New Model for the Origin of Grid Cells

Neuroscience NewsJuly 21, 2017

A new study theorizes the development of grid cells depends upon the synaptic input from place cells.... Read More...

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Human Cognitive Map Scales According to Surroundings

Neuroscience NewsApril 13, 2017

A new study investigates how we are able to assess new locations and become orientated with the help of visual cues.... Read More...

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Brain’s Navigation Is More Complex Than Previously Thought

Neuroscience NewsApril 7, 2017

New discovery could change the way we think about how the brain helps us to navigate.... Read More...

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Excess Tau Protein Damages Brain’s GPS For Alzheimer’s Patients

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 19, 2017

The spatial dissociation in Alzheimer's disease that causes people to wander may be a result of tau accumulation in the entorhinal cortex's grid cells, a new study reports.... Read More...

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Brain Uses Backward Instant Replay to Recall Important Travel Routes

Neuroscience NewsAugust 26, 2016

Using a chocolatey reward, researchers discover how rats form some memories.... Read More...

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Rats in Augmented Reality Help Show How the Brain Determines Location

Navigating Our Thoughts: Fundamental Principles of Thinking

How the Brain’s Grid System Maps Mental Spaces

How the Brain Experiences Time

Why Older People Might Lose Their Way

Brain Takes Seconds to Switch Modes During Tasks

Schizophrenia and Memory Deficits: Biological Origins of Core Schizophrenia Symptoms Discovered

New Model for the Origin of Grid Cells

Human Cognitive Map Scales According to Surroundings

Brain’s Navigation Is More Complex Than Previously Thought

Excess Tau Protein Damages Brain’s GPS For Alzheimer’s Patients

Brain Uses Backward Instant Replay to Recall Important Travel Routes