Navigating the brain for sense of direction as paradigm for higher cognitive functions
... ...BETHESDA, Md. (Oct. 3, 2005) It's often said that the key to Bill Bradley's basketball success was summed up in the title of the 1965 book by John McPhee, "A sense of where you are." Bradley always seemed to know where all nine other players were, where Bradley himself was in relation to the basket and where the open spot was to be found for his stylized jump shot.... ..."Navigation is...Scientists have for the first time mapped multiple complex biological interactions in a yeast cell in a simple graphical form, enhancing our understanding of how the networks of interaction by which components of a cell influence one another. New research published in the Open Access journal Journal of Biology shows that such maps can also reveal cryptic interactions and enable accurate predictio...