Five-year-olds already use brain regions for map-based navigation, challenging previous assumptions about spatial development ...

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 large-scale spaces—known as map-based navigation—is ...

The technology of fMRI offers a window into those questions. The harmless, noninvasive technique uses a giant magnet to scan the brain ... mockup of a scanner, cartoons and Cheerios.

This paper addresses a valuable research question on the heritability of the brain's response to movie watching, given various parameters such as regional spatial hyperalignment and BOLD frequency ...

An international team, led by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has shown—for the first time in a realistic ...