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November 28th, 2014

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Mickey’s Day Out in India

So Cool! India got featured
in a Mickey Mouse Video!
Just love it.

The Brain’s GPS!

Did you know that the Brain has a system that works
like the internal GPS system? It is this system that
helps you identify where you are and quickly recalls if
you have travelled the path before and helps you find
your way.
In fact, the discovery of this system led May-Britt
Moser, Edvard Moser and Late John O’ Keefe to win
the nobel prize.

Is India only about cows
and dirt roads and pink
elephants… or was it
Ganesha… and lotuses?

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Apparently there is an area in the brain called the
hippocampus (funny name, hippo and campus!) which
has something called place cells. When you are at a
particular place, a particular cell gets triggered. When
the place changes, different cells get triggered, thus
forming a map of the place.
Then there are the grid cells, which more than three
decades later, in 2005, May-Britt and Edvard Moser
discovered another key component of the brain's
positioning system. They identified another type of
nerve cell, which they called "grid cells", that generate
a coordinate system and allow for precise positioning
and path-finding. Their subsequent research showed
how place and grid cells make it possible to determine
the position and to navigate.