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    Predicting Dementia Using Neural Network Characteristics

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·October 18, 2021·5 min read

How the Brain Navigates Cities

Researchers say the brain appears to be wired to calculate not the shortest path, but the "pointiest" path, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
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·December 8, 2020·7 min read

How the Brain Remembers Right Place and Right Time

Two new studies advance understanding of how the brain encodes episodic memories. The findings have the potential to develop new avenues of treatment for memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease and TBI.
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·August 31, 2020·4 min read

People With Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s Have Deficits in Navigating

Grid cell dysfunction in the entorhinal cortex may explain why people with a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease have problems with navigation.
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·January 30, 2020·6 min read

Brain’s ‘GPS system’ toggles between present and possible future paths in real time

Study shows how hippocampal cells can represent different hypothetical scenarios consistently and systematically over time. The findings shed new light on how place cells assist in decision making and imagination.
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·November 19, 2019·4 min read

Virtual ‘moonwalk’ for science reveals distortions in spatial memory

Memories learned within a distorted coordinated system are also distorted when recalled later.
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·August 2, 2019·6 min read

Knowing where the center of a space is helps inform spatial awareness

The postrhinal cortex of rats contains three types of spatial cells which act together to provide a sense of location and directional orientation.
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·April 22, 2019·5 min read

Brain regions linked to memory and emotion help humans navigate smell

During navigation tasks using a 'smell scape', the entorhinal cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex elicit grid cell-like activity.
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·February 11, 2019·5 min read

Rats in Augmented Reality Help Show How the Brain Determines Location

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.
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·November 9, 2018·7 min read

Navigating Our Thoughts: Fundamental Principles of Thinking

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.
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·October 14, 2018·4 min read

How the Brain’s Grid System Maps Mental Spaces

An international team of researchers have been able to demonstrate, with electrophysiological evidence, the existence of grid-like activity in the human brain.
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·August 29, 2018·7 min read

How the Brain Experiences Time

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.
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·March 16, 2018·4 min read

Why Older People Might Lose Their Way

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.
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