UCI scientists identify important aspect of the brain's navigational system

(University of California - Irvine) The ability to successfully navigate in the environment is essential both for animals searching for food or escaping predators, as well as for human urban dwellers. It is something we take for granted, but under the hood, it is supported by still incompletely understood brain networks that continuously calculate our position in the environment. Moreover, the location where certain experience occurred is an indispensable building block of memory.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news