Grid cells are a class of specialized neurons in a brain region called the entorhinal cortex, which is known to support spatial navigation and some memory processes. Past neuroscience studies have ...

A breakthrough discovery at the Kavli Institute at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway has uncovered a previously unknown function of grid cells, the specialized ...

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 ...