When animals move through 3D spaces, the neat system of grid cell activity they use for navigating on flat surfaces gets more disorderly. That has implications for some ideas about memory and other ...

In this environment, single cells usually produce perfectly hexagonal grid patterns. In the second experiment, the rat runs along a wagon wheel shaped maze. These types of linear paths are known to ...

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 ...

Two new studies show that the brain’s navigation system changes how it represents physical space to reflect personal experience. But New Yorkers aren’t the only ones with a skewed perception of scale ...