Grid cells are a class of specialized neurons in a brain region called the entorhinal cortex, which is known to support spatial navigation and some memory processes. Past neuroscience studies have ...

A discovery at the Kavli Institute at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway has uncovered a previously unknown function of grid cells, the specialized neurons that help ...

The figure shows a rat in front of a grid cell's false color-coded activation pattern. Like this neuron, every grid cell responds to multiple positions in space that form a virtual hexagonal lattice ...

When animals move through 3D spaces, the neat system of grid cell activity they use for navigating on flat surfaces gets more disorderly. That has implications for some ideas about memory and other ...

Findings from a novel study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, suggest that using a specialized diffusion weighted MRI scan to monitor the spatial pattern of individual ...