#spatial navigation

Brain's GPS Has a Buddy System

To be successful as a social animal, you need to know where you stand relative to others. Brain cells that perform precisely this function--locating the 'self' and others in space--have now been identified. In rats, the same brain area that stores the animal's own location also maps the movements of other rats. Sometimes these representations are processed jointly by the same cells, depending on a rat's goals and actions. This discovery, from Japan's RIKEN Brain Science Institute, deepens our understanding of the hippocampus and its role as the brain's positioning system.

Honeycomb Maze Offers Significant Improvement Over Current Spatial Navigational Tests

Spatial navigation tasks are used to study the way animals identify their location and navigate towards favourable, and away from unfavourable, locations in response to changes in the environment.

How Spatial Navigation Correlates With Language

Cognitive neuroscientists from the Higher School of Economics and Aarhus University experimentally demonstrate how spatial navigation impacts language comprehension.

Brain's Navigation Is More Complex Than Previously Thought

Neuroscientists’ discovery of grid cells, popularly known as the brain’s GPS, was hailed as a major discovery. But new results suggest the system is more complicated than anyone had guessed.

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