- 2012
- Jan
- 29
Brain Likely Encodes the World in Two Dimensions
Patricia emailed us this article posted over at Scientific American. The article reads:
When we drive somewhere new, we navigate by referring to a two-dimensional map that accounts for distances only on a horizontal plane. According to research published online in August in Nature Neuroscience , the mammalian brain seems to do the same, collapsing the world into a flat plane even as the animal skitters up trees and slips deep into burrows.
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