Even in darkness, many animals retain a sense of orientation because their nervous system sustains a memory of heading encoded by the activity of head-direction (HD) cells. Animals continuously update ...

Human navigation relies on multiple levels of spatial knowledge, including place knowledge, route knowledge (sequences of places) and map-like survey knowledge, which encodes straight-line spatial ...

In their classic country hit, "Wide Open Spaces," the Dixie Chicks sum up the findings of a new study which found that the structural environments that surround us either restrict, or promote, our ...

To investigate the neural correlates of navigation strategies and social interactions in immersive environments, we present a novel dataset combining electroencephalography (EEG) and behavioral ...

Here, I focus on men’s advantages in aspects of folk physics. At the broadest level, folk physics is composed of abilities and biases that support movement in space (e.g., navigation), the mental ...