​​There's a good chance you can't remember the last time you unfolded a paper map or committed a route to memory before leaving the house. For most people, navigation has been outsourced entirely to a ...

A new study published in Nature suggests that the neural foundations of spatial navigation—the brain's internal "GPS"—may have emerged far earlier in evolution than previously believed. The research, ...

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 ...