Your brain doesn’t navigate like a GPS after all

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Neurons were once considered the brain’s GPS, and they were subject of a Nobel Prize in 2014 that outlined the discovery of grid cells and specialized neurons that help animals keep track of their location in environments. New Stanford University research suggests that the brain and neurons just might be more complex than that.

Lisa Giocomo, an assistant professor of neurobiology in the School of Medicine, and Surya Ganguli, an assistant professor of applied physics, received a seed grant in 2014 to figure out exactly how the brain navigates. Some neurons behaved like they were supposed to, but the researchers found that most had noisy, error-prone navigation, much like a broken GPS.

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