Navigation and the “inner GPS”

Navigation is the most elemental of our skills — “Where am I?” wasthe first question a creature had to answer — and it’s the one that gives usour tightest connection to the world. The loss of navigational sense is also often the first sign of a mind in decay. Last week, the Nobel Committee announced that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine will goto three scientists — John O’Keefe and the couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser — whose work has revealedthe intricatebiological underpi...