Researchers find brains can tune their navigation system without landmarks

Stripe presentation and gain computation. a, Virtual reality Dome apparatus b, Stripes projected within the dome. c, Stripe gain, S, related the velocity of the rat with respect to the lab and stripe frames. d–g, Hippocampal gain decoding. h, Spatial information scores in the hippocampal frame are significantly higher than those in laboratory and stripe frames for each rat . Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-024-01681-9 Johns Hopkins research sheds new light on how mammals track their position and orientation while moving, revealing that visual motion cues alone allow the Read More

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