The neurons that help us know where we’re going have been discovered by researchers. Working with bats, which move in three dimensions, the team found that bats’ brains contain a sort of 3D compass, ...

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Navigation requires a sense of direction (‘compass’), which in mammals is thought to be provided by head-direction cells, neurons that discharge when the animal’s head points to a specific azimuth.

Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable to tell up from down and sometimes even leads to crashes. Coming up out of a ...

Head direction cells in the bat hippocampus encode three-dimensional representations of space Israeli researchers have identified three-dimensional ‘compass’ cells in the bat brain, explaining how the ...