Event:

In this talk, one of the discoverers of the brain’s built-in system for orientation and pathfinding will describe how it works. Areas of the brain called the entorhinal cortex and the hippocampus form a map of external space that is updated in real time. This universally applicable neural map consists of a number of different functionally specialized cell types, which work together in a complex neural network.

Prof. Moser will focus especially on the role of so-called "grid cells," discovered in his laboratory, which interact with "direction cells" and "border cells" to generate and dynamically update an internal map that helps us find our way from one place to the next.