Episode 10
Get Lost! Navigating the Brain
Combining virtual reality and treadmills to map navigation and inducing creativity by electrically tweaking human brains.
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists · James Tytko
March 20, 201330m 2s
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Show Notes
Combining virtual reality and treadmills to map navigation in the brain. We ask how starlings flock in such a synchronised murmuration. And in the news, inducing creativity by electrically tweaking human brains, how video games could help national security, plus we find out what's been keeping Professor Gage up all night! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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