Spatial Navigation - The GPS In Our Brains

Friday, October 14, 2011 - 10:10 in Biology & Nature

Rhythmic activity of nerve cells supports spatial navigation, say a group of researchers who recently showed that cells in the entorhinal cortex, important for spatial navigation, oscillate with individual frequencies. These frequencies depend on the position of the cells within the entorhinal cortex. read more

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