Rats, Bees, and Brains: The Death of the “Cognitive Map”
Humans, just like other animals, face the same problem every day: how do we navigate? So do gerbils, and geese, chickens, and even desert ants. It’s referred to as “path integration.”
Ask most people how they manage to navigate the world, and many will tell you that they think about the space around them in map-like terms. Neurophysiological experiments were designed that allowed researchers to monitor the activity of individual neurons in rats while they navigated a maze. See what they found…
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Rats, Bees, and Brains: The Death of the “Cognitive Map” | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network
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