In order to remember where important events happened, or how to get from A to B, brains form mental "maps" of the environment. An important component of these mental maps are the so-called grid cells. Different grid cells ...
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Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered a region of the brain that encodes where an animal is planning to be in the near future. Linked to internal maps of spatial locations and ...
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London's taxi drivers have to pass an exam in which they are asked to name the shortest route between any two places within six miles of Charing Cross – an area with more than 60,000 roads. We know from brain scans that ...
May 18, 2015
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A reliable sense of space is essential for daily life and memory formation. Removing sugar coated proteins around neurons in the brains' internal gps makes the mental map of space unstable, shows a study published in the ...
Jan 19, 2021
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An area of the brain involved in eye movements also plays an important role in establishing our direction and navigating our environment, a Dartmouth College study finds.
Feb 10, 2015
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Grid cells not only help us navigate our own paths in a complex environment, but also help us analyze the movements of other people, scientists from the University of Vienna have now shown for the first time. Their new study ...
Feb 1, 2023
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By analyzing the activity of "GPS" neurons in mice, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that the mental maps created by these cells accumulate errors, which are corrected when the animal ...
Apr 16, 2015
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Zoltan Nadasdy, a neuroscientist at The University of Texas at Austin, wanted to understand how grid cells in the brain help orient us in the world. He had been studying spatial memory in the animal brain for years when ...
Feb 6, 2018
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Neural networks, a type of computing system loosely modeled on the organization of the human brain, form the basis of many artificial intelligence systems for applications such as speech recognition, computer vision, and ...
Nov 2, 2022
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One of the most complex accomplishments of our brain is spatial orientation. To accomplish this, the brain uses various cell types including place cells and grid cells. Place cells tell the brain the current position. Scientists ...
Dec 11, 2017
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