Cortical representations recreate features of the outside world in a language that is suitable for brain computation. Such representations exist at different levels of complexity, ranging from the ...

A mysterious grid of dots spanning several miles of Western China's sand dunes like a giant chessboard may be the result of geological surveys for nickel mines, according to new analysis of satellite ...

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a kind of "GPS in the head." However, scientists at the German Cancer ...