Going Places: Rat Brain 'GPS' Maps Routes To Rewards

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

Studying rats' ability to navigate familiar territory, Johns Hopkins scientists found that the hippocampus uses remembered spatial information to imagine routes the rats then follow. Their discovery has implications for memory loss due to Alzheimer's disease and aging.

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