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Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are

How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you’re moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.

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    This makes me really miss working in a neuroscience lab.
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    Very interesting!
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    Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are
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    oooooh
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    Fascinating stuff. Also, this neuroscientist can show me where he’s parked his car whenever he wants.
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    Una TED muy guapa de como funciona nuestro cerebro, por ejemplo, al recordar dónde hemos aparcado el coche, y los...
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    mmm place cells
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    I’d be interested to see how (or even if) this changes in people who exist in extremely direction-sensitive cultures,...
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