How we remember directions

Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have discovered how bats (and possibly humans) navigate.  A network of cells encodes the direction of one’s destination. The findings may help explain how memory loss and “getting lost” tend to go together in Alzheimer’s patients.

http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bats-remember-directions

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