How Do We Find Our Way? Grid Cells in the Brain

Navigation in the environment, getting from one place to another, is of most fundamental and vital skills animal kingdom, for humans, too. To navigate successfully, an needs create internal “cognitive map” outside environment. This performed by a specific system brain, containing several brain regions various cell types, each with its unique role navigation. In this article, I will outline some main components navigation system, focusing on grid cells, amazing surprising group nerve cells that we discovered, which coordinate brain. end few general recommendations you, based my own life experiences.