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a bat. Courtesy of Tel Aviv University

If the walls could talk

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If bats can hear and detect obstacles, why do they still sometimes crash into walls?
"Similar to humans, the ability of bats to place others in space is essential for them." Photo: Brooke Fenton.

Me and the Guys: How the Brain Maps Social Space

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Illustration: pixabay.

where are we where are we going

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Lateral section of the human brain, indicating the location of the hippocampus. Chart: National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

The individual bases his decisions on brain areas that have proven their reliability in the past

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Common fruit bat. Weizmann Institute scientists report on a new type of neurons discovered in the bat brain. These neurons encode the direction and distance to the target to which the bat navigates and in this way they constitute a direct neural mechanism for navigating to targets. Source: Oren Pels, Derivative work: User:MathKnight, Wikimedia.

How the brain encodes the "destination point" that you want to reach

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May-Britt Moser and Edward Moser from the University of Trodenheim in Norway, two winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Photo: Wikipedia

The Nobel Prize for Medicine for discovering the "GPS" of the brain

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