A study in fruit flies reveals how the brain's compass and steering regions make course corrections. Our sense of direction is essential to our ability to navigate the world around us. It acts as the ...

It acts as the brain's internal compass to help us find our way and, just as importantly, to prompt us to change course when we're heading in the wrong direction. Yet despite a large body of research ...

Zhengang Lu and Russell Epstein, from the University of Pennsylvania, led a study to explore how people maintain their sense of direction while navigating naturalistic, virtual reality cities. As ...

A new study in fruit flies reveals how the brain’s internal compass and steering regions work together. These brain regions are connected by neurons that help flies make course corrections in real ...