Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

In today’s technology-focused world, GPS-enabled devices can tell us where we are and how to get to where we want to go. But what happens when you don’t have access to those devices? Well, that’s when ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can learn to associate food with the geomagnetic signatures of various oceanic regions, suggesting that they are able to find known foraging areas using an ...

Neuroscientists are developing methods to map the brain systems that allow us to recognize and get around our world. Many behavioral studies suggest that using landmarks to navigate through ...