Role of Brain in Spatial Navigation

Do you have any idea how do we know where we are at any given moment? How do we remember routes that we've walked? Spatial navigation has long been a subject of psychological and brain research. "It is likely that there is more than one spatial navigation mechanism; rather, the brain uses different 'codes' to memorise locations," says Nikolai Axmacher. In their current study, the RUB scientists and their colleagues at the Department for Epileptology ...