Struggling with spatial navigation in a virtual reality environment can predict actual brain shrinkage a year later in adults ...

Navigation in mammals including humans and rodents depends on specialized neural networks that encode the animal's location and trajectory in the environment, serving essentially as a GPS, findings ...

To move around in their surroundings in meaningful and goal-directed ways, a skill known as navigation, humans and animals rely on a series of complex cognitive (i.e., mental) processes. Navigation is ...

Grid cells are a class of specialized neurons in a brain region called the entorhinal cortex, which is known to support spatial navigation and some memory processes. Past neuroscience studies have ...

Did you know that after age 50, your brain shrinks? On average, the hippocampus shrinks 1-2% year by year at this time. The ...

People under stress may find it harder to orient themselves in space, and researchers in Bochum have identified a possible reason why. The stress hormone cortisol appears to interfere with the brain ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists found the brain's internal GPS changes each time we navigate a familiar, static environment. This means that if someone walks the same path ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Paulina Maxim, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) When was the last ...