Oriented behaviour is present in almost all animals, indicating that it is an ancient feature
that has emerged from animal brains hundreds of millions of years ago. Although many …

Continuously monitoring its position in space relative to a goal is one of the most essential
tasks for an animal that moves through its environment. Species as diverse as rats, bees …

Many behavioural tasks require the manipulation of mathematical vectors, but, outside of
computational models,,,,,–, it is not known how brains perform vector operations. Here we …

The medieval curriculum comprised seven liberal arts, divided into the lower-level trivium
(grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the upper-level quadrivium (geometry, astronomy …

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions
of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi …

Foraging desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, continually keep track of their own posotions
relative to home—ie, integrate their tortuous outbound routes and return home along straight …

It is often assumed that navigation implies the use, by animals, of landmarks indicating the
location of the goal. However, many animals (including humans) are able to return to the …

Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of
neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of …

The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial
fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis …

Medial entorhinal grid cells fire in periodic, hexagonally patterned locations and are
proposed to support path-integration-based navigation. The recursive nature of path …