Navigating Our Thoughts: Fundamental Principles of Thinking

It is one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience: How do humans think? Until recently, we seemed far from a conclusive answer. However, scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig, Germany, have combined the available evidence, in collaboration with Nobel Prize laureate Edvard Moser from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway and Peter Gärdenfors from Lund University in Sweden, to paint a new, comprehensive picture in the current issue of the journal Science: Humans think using their brain’s navigation system.