Researchers from King's College London have discovered a specific class of inhibitory neurons in the cerebral cortex which plays a key role in how the brain
encodes spatial information.
Using a video game in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, a team of neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Freiburg University has discovered how brain cells that
encode spatial information form «geotags» for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.
Not exact matches
These independent
encoding schemes may enable simultaneous representation of
spatial and episodic memory
information.
The present study combined electroencephalography (EEG) and eye - tracking to investigate oscillatory brain activity for 30 participants who retrieved
information from a previously
encoded spatial arrangement of objects.
In the home theater and mobile versions, audio is
encoded alongside
spatial information into Dolby TrueHD or Digital Plus formats.