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‘Bat-nav’ reveals how the brain tracks other animals

Neural mapping system, which tells an animal where it is, also monitors the position of others.
  1. Alison Abbott
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The brain’s navigation system — which keeps track of where we are in space — also monitors the movements of others, experiments in bats and rats suggest.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-00484-w

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