Landmarks like a church steeple or a yellow house on the corner play an important role in the ability to navigate. But so does an internal compass, thought to be supported by specialized neurons in ...

You're driving from work to pick up your kids at school. The drive is familiar; you've done it almost every day for years. But how do you know in which direction the school is from your home?

This may be one of those features you never knew you were missing. After all, if you’re using walking navigation or the like, Google Maps has long attempted to give you an accurate read regarding ...

Most mammals possess high-resolution visual perception, with primary visual cortices containing fine-scale, inter-related feature representations (for example, orientation and ocular dominance). Rats ...

The development of response properties in the primary visual cortex (V1) is thought to involve two distinct phases: an experience-independent phase in which the basic neural circuits that underlie ...

The four main points of the compass are north, east, south and west. Half way between each of these there are four other points: north-east, south-east, south-west and north-west. This makes an ...

There's one thing all animals have in common: a sense of direction. And while other animals may navigate better than we humans, most humans navigate better than I do. Case in point: The time I visited ...