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·October 28, 2021·5 min read

The Goal in Mind: Brain’s Internal Goal Map Helps Animals Precisely Navigate to Chosen Destination

Study reveals a specific neural code for spatial goals, providing evidence for the brain's goal map that guides us to a remote location over space and time.

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·October 22, 2021·5 min read

VR Experiment With Rats Offers New Insights About How Neurons Enable Learning

Studying rats in a virtual reality maze, researchers discover certain hippocampal neurons play a vital role in a specific mechanism of navigation.

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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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·September 3, 2021·4 min read

New Model for Solving Novel Problems Uses Mental Map

The cognitive map allows people to compute on the fly with limited information to solve abstract problems.

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·August 7, 2021·4 min read

Kids Set Free to Roam on Their Own Feel More Confident Navigating in Adulthood

Children allowed to explore a distance beyond their home either alone or with friends are more confident and accomplished in navigational skills as adults, researchers report.

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·April 30, 2021·2 min read

Navigating the Squircle

Study reveals hippocampal maps predict context-dependent behaviors.

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·March 10, 2021·3 min read

Where Am I Going? Just Ask Your Subiculum

The subiculum helps route navigation-associated information received by the hippocampus downstream to other areas of the brain.

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·December 31, 2020·7 min read

How Our Brains Track Where We and Others Go

Study reveals how our brains navigate physical spaces and how we are able to keep track of other people's locations.

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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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·June 24, 2020·2 min read

Humans navigate with stereo olfaction

Findings suggest humans have a stereo sense of smell that subconsciously guides navigation.

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·March 10, 2020·5 min read

How the brain encodes landmarks that help us navigate

The retrosplenial cortex combines visual and spatial information to help us navigate our way around.

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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.