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Science 29 March 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5564, pp. 2385 - 2386
DOI: 10.1126/science.1070867
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Moving Through the Landscape

David Bradley

How does our brain compute our heading as we move through the environment? In his Perspective, Bradley discusses new findings (Froehler and Duffy) that pinpoint a region of the brain called MST as the center for integrating information about path, place, and heading during self-movement.

The author is in the Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: bradley{at}uchicago.edu

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