Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists discovered cells within the brain's hippocampus that store memories of specific ...

Look around, and you'll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the brain organizes into regions. Nature loves modularity—a limited number of ...

Ila Fiete, a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the McGovern Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

Miller, and Ila Fiete, PhD, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, the director of the K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience Center (ICoN), and a member of MIT’s McGovern ...

McNamara and his collaborators -- Vanderbilt doctoral students Xiaoli Chen and Qiliang He, Jonathan Kelly from Iowa State University and Ila Fiete from the University of Texas, Austin -- became ...

A series of immersive reality experiments has confirmed that the human brain's internal navigation system works in the same fashion as the grid cell system recently found in other mammals.

Two studies find “self-supervised” models, which learn about their environment from unlabeled data, can show activity patterns similar to those of the mammalian brain. To make our way through the ...

WASHINGTON: A new study, with the help of virtual reality, has shed new light on how people navigate in the dark. A series of immersive virtual reality experime ...