Professor Kate Jeffery on the Neuroscience of Navigation
Professor Kate Jeffery is a global leader in the neuroscience of navigation. By monitoring the brains of rats as they move about a box, she can start to figure out how our brains learn where we are - and how we create a mental map of the world.
In this discussion, we talk about how the brain works, the different parts of the brain used for navigation, why some of us navigate completely differently to others - and why all tube stations should have compass points underground.
Kate Jeffery is Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at University College London.
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