I have a terrible sense of direction. In the car or on foot, I can get lost effortlessly unless I'm very familiar with where I am. I'm often amazed how well most people get around. I can always find ...

Human navigation turns out to be less like following a static map and more like tuning a control knob inside the brain. New ...

My Dad was a pilot and one time, years ago when he came to Santa Barbara to visit me, we rented a small place from the airport to go enjoy the coastal, ocean and island sights from a bird’s-eye view.

You might wonder what mice perched on a circular stage inside a 360-degree virtual-reality dome might have to do with dementia, but studying the way the brain orients and adjusts based on visual ...

Take a walk through the centre of an old city: Meander through Marais, stumble through the Shambles, saunter through the City. Twisting, turning, looking for that hidden treasure — a church, a museum, ...

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