Resumen de Navigation cells spotted in the human brain
Thomson talks about specialized cell in the brain can help find people's way home. Direction and place cells have been identified in people but the existence of grid cells had only been hinted at in brain scans. To find out whether they exist in humans. Joshua Jacobs at Drexel University in Philadelphia PA recruited 14 people who already had electrodes in their brains for epilepsy therapy. The team found that single cells in the brain fired regularly in response to the motion of the volunteers' avatars, in a similar pattern to that seen in animal grid cells.
