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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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Featured Neuroscience

·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.

Featured Neuroscience

·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.

Featured Neuroscience

·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.

Featured Neuroscience

·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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Featured Neuroscience

·October 7, 2019·5 min read

Navigating ‘Neuralville’: Virtual town helps map brain functions

Combining neuroimaging and a constructed virtual reality town, researchers found the brain uses three different systems to perceive environment. One system allows us to recognize a place, another helps navigate through that location, and the third helps navigate from one place to another. The parahippocampal place area (PPA) helps encode location recognition, while the retrosplenial complex allows for mentally mapping the locations of specific places.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 16, 2019·5 min read

Finding the brain’s compass

Researchers have identified a neural network in mice that transfers high dimensional complex information about the environment to a simple abstract object in the brain.