A breakthrough discovery at the Kavli Institute at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway has uncovered a previously unknown function of grid cells, the specialized ...

Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists discovered cells within the brain's hippocampus that store memories of specific locations. These cells also play an important role in storing memories of events, ...

Evidence of grid cell activity has been seen in healthy volunteers asked to imagine moving through an environment. The study used fMRI scans to detect brain activity consistent with grid cell activity ...

Dr. Hyuk-June Moon from the Bionics Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), in collaboration with Prof. Olaf Blanke’s team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

The ability to orient oneself in space and return safely to the starting point is crucial for the survival of humans and animals. Whether searching for food, hiking, or in everyday life, our brain ...

Neurobiologists present a new theory for the origin of the grid cells required for spatial orientation in the mammalian brain, which assigns a vital role to the timing of trains of signals they ...