{"id":189002,"date":"2024-05-09T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-think-theyve-found-our-neural-compass-that-stops-us-getting-lost"},"modified":"2024-05-09T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T16:27:36","slug":"scientists-think-theyve-found-our-neural-compass-that-stops-us-getting-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-think-theyve-found-our-neural-compass-that-stops-us-getting-lost","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Think They\u2019ve Found Our \u2018Neural Compass\u2019 That Stops Us Getting Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-think-theyve-found-our-neural-compass-that-stops-us-getting-lost2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To keep our bodies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/your-navigational-skills-are-intricately-linked-to-your-past-research-shows\">properly oriented<\/a>, our brains perform impressive feats of calculation that track our stumbling meat sack through a mental map of our surrounds.<\/p>\n<p>While a lot of research has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/our-mental-picture-of-space-seems-to-expand-like-the-universe\">focussed on the mapping<\/a>, little has managed to determine how our neurological wiring monitors our direction within it.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany has identified signature brain activity that describes a kind of \u2018neural compass\u2019 in the hope of understanding how we find our way through the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep our bodies properly oriented, our brains perform impressive feats of calculation that track our stumbling meat sack through a mental map of our surrounds. While a lot of research has focussed on the mapping, little has managed to determine how our neurological wiring monitors our direction within it. A team of researchers from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}