{"id":218582,"date":"2025-07-23T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/map-making-neurons-change-even-when-familiar-settings-remain-exactly-the-same"},"modified":"2025-07-23T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:07:13","slug":"map-making-neurons-change-even-when-familiar-settings-remain-exactly-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/map-making-neurons-change-even-when-familiar-settings-remain-exactly-the-same","title":{"rendered":"Map-making neurons change even when familiar settings remain exactly the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/map-making-neurons-change-even-when-familiar-settings-remain-exactly-the-same.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists have found that the brain\u2019s internal GPS changes each time we navigate a familiar, static environment.<\/p>\n<p>This means that if someone walks the same path every day\u2014and the path and surrounding conditions remain identical\u2014each walk still activates different \u201cmap-making\u201d brain cells (neurons). Not only does this discovery shed light on the fundamental mystery of how the brain processes and stores <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/spatial+memories\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spatial memories<\/a>, but it could also have profound implications for scientists\u2019 understanding of memory, learning and even aging.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09245-y\" target=\"_blank\">study appears<\/a> in Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists have found that the brain\u2019s internal GPS changes each time we navigate a familiar, static environment. This means that if someone walks the same path every day\u2014and the path and surrounding conditions remain identical\u2014each walk still activates different \u201cmap-making\u201d brain cells (neurons). Not only does this discovery shed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218582","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}