Virtual reality testing provides better understanding of human brain
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2015 · Education
A series of immersive virtual reality experiments has now confirmed that the human brain’s internal navigation system works in the same fashion as the grid cell system, a specialized neural network, identified in a number of other mammals. The experiments were performed by a research team headed by Tim McNamara, Vanderbilt professor of psychology and described in a recent issue of the journal Current Biology. McNamara’s research findings provide an inkling of a better understanding of human cognition and perception and how that system works in the brain. For more information about this research go to: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/06/virtual-reality-sheds-new-light-on-how-we-navigate-in-the-dark/ Follow Vanderbilt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderbiltu, on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanderbiltu and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanderbilt. See all Vanderbilt social media at http://social.vanderbilt.edu.
