Human Brain, Like Google Maps, Creates Multiple Independent Maps While Finding The Way In Physical World

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 08:28 in Mathematics & Economics

Through the power of Google Earth, you can travel the globe from the comfort of your computer screen, peering down on everything from above. But once you change your perspective – if you go into one of the buildings that you’ve looked down on – you have to upload a new map. Now, researchers in Norway have discovered that the brain also creates multiple independent maps while finding the way in the physical world.

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