Nobel Prize for the brain's GPS discovery

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Post by simonbrown » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 11:08 AM UTC

Nobel Prize for the brain's GPS discovery
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Re: Nobel Prize for the brain's GPS discovery

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Post by Zikes » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 3:07 PM UTC

One step closer to the day when we can "download" a map of a location and intuitively know where things are.

Would this mapping apply to other spatial applications? Does the brain work similarly when interacting with a physical, 3-dimensional puzzle, for instance?

Re: Nobel Prize for the brain's GPS discovery

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Post by rjanoch » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 3:29 PM UTC

Zikes wrote: post #2

One step closer to the day when we can "download" a map of a location and intuitively know where things are. Would this mapping apply to other spatial applications? Does the brain work similarly when interacting with a physical, 3-dimensional puzzle, for instance?

There was an article in Science on 3D space related to this. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6130/367 http://knowingneurons.com/2014/05/29/navigating-a-3d-world/

Re: Nobel Prize for the brain's GPS discovery

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Post by Zikes » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 3:50 PM UTC

rjanoch wrote: post #3

Zikes wrote: post #2

One step closer to the day when we can "download" a map of a location and intuitively know where things are. Would this mapping apply to other spatial applications? Does the brain work similarly when interacting with a physical, 3-dimensional puzzle, for instance?

There was an article in Science on 3D space related to this. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6130/367 http://knowingneurons.com/2014/05/29/navigating-a-3d-world/

Neat! I could practically imagine those cells working like a bloom filter for more complex positioning.