The hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with information associated with spatial navigation and memory. For example, you are driving and despite the changing environment of different cars going at varying speeds, ...
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Finding routes to destinations and remembering special places are governed by a brain region that functions like a GPS navigation system. When taking a new path for the first time, people pay attention to the landmarks along ...
Feb 15, 2021
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Several acoustic studies have shown that the position of your eyes determines where your visual spatial attention is directed, which automatically influences your auditory spatial attention. Researchers are currently exploring ...
Dec 9, 2020
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How do you keep orientation in a complex environment, like the city of Vienna? You can thank your brain's 'global positioning system,' the hippocampus, for this sense of orientation. To further understand its functions, scientists ...
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When we move through the streets of our neighborhood, we often use familiar landmarks to help us navigate. And as we think to ourselves, "OK, now make a left at the coffee shop," a part of the brain called the retrosplenial ...
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The laboratories of Drs. Peyman Golshani at the University of California in Los Angeles, Tristan Shuman at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and Panayiota Poirazi at the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology (IMBB) ...
Feb 3, 2020
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As you enter a new environment such as visiting a classroom for the first time, your brain takes in information about your surroundings to help inform where you are and what direction you are facing. Knowing where the center ...
Aug 2, 2019
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The brain is a personalized GPS. It can keep track of where you are in time and space without your knowledge.
Dec 8, 2017
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Researchers from King's College London have discovered a specific class of inhibitory neurons in the cerebral cortex which plays a key role in how the brain encodes spatial information. The findings are published in the journal ...
Apr 10, 2017
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Noradrenaline is a neuromodulator secreted in the brain depending on behavioral context and physiological states of animal, influencing a wide range of physiological functions by modulating brain activity. It may be best ...
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