Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

As I mentioned in the last post, I used to have a pathetic sense of direction. I couldn't find my way out of the proverbial paper bag. If I was driving and approached an intersection from 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 ...

In this Perspective, we evaluate current progress in understanding how the brain encodes our sense of direction, within the context of parallel work focused on how early vestibular pathways encode ...