People who are stressed out have a harder time orienting themselves. A new study used neuroimaging to reveal why this happens ...

Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and the University of Tokyo have found a mathematical ...

Targeted deep brain stimulation improves spatial navigation in virtual reality study, offering new hope for treating cognitive impairments like dementia. Study ...

As we age, it becomes more difficult to remember where things are—whether it’s recalling where we left the keys or where we parked the car. This spatial memory deteriorates further with the onset of ...

The brain creates internal 'maps' to help us navigate and learn from our surroundings, but how these maps form remains a challenge to understand. Now, a study led by Liset M. de la Prida at the Cajal ...

Neurons that track which direction an animal faces can hold their firing patterns steady for months, even as other brain ...

New research shows stress impairs direction sense, weakening the brain’s navigation system and making it harder to stay ...

New research reveals that while our memory centers are constantly shifting, our internal compass remains frozen in time to ...

Stress hormone cortisol may disrupt grid cells in the brain, impairing spatial navigation and affecting the neural system ...

The brain helps us navigate through the world, but it also functions as a navigational system. This is the opinion of ...