Researchers report the horizontal canals in the vestibular system play a key role in helping us sense our direction.
A new study could help improve understanding of memory loss and wandering behavior in people with Alzheimer's disease.
A new study reports, contrary to popular belief, place cells in the dentate gyrus do not remap. Instead, memory discrimination is controlled by increased co-firing of place cells and the neurons that organize which place cells discharge.
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.
Using a 'smell virtual landscape', researchers discover the mammalian brain can map our surroundings based on smells alone.
The cognitive map allows people to compute on the fly with limited information to solve abstract problems.
Researchers report on how memories formed in one area of the brain are replayed and transferred to a different area during rest.
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.
A new study reveals how neurons in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampal neurons work together to help guide future learning.
Neurons in the primary olfactory cortex play a role in encoding spatial maps, a new study reports.
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.
The postrhinal cortex of rats contains three types of spatial cells which act together to provide a sense of location and directional orientation.
