By James Gorman -
Scientists’ discovery that rodents, bats and nonhuman primates have a system in the brain for what amounts to dead reckoning navigation is one of the most important brain research developments of the past few decades.
The system is built on what are called grid cells, neurons that emit pulses of electricity in a regular pattern that maps the animal’s movement.
Scientists predicted they would find grid cells in humans, and now they have.
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Predicted grid cells finally found in humans brain
