Neuroscience in the Wild

Natural behaviors are performed outdoors – in the real world. Our most recent adventure is to take Neuroscience into the Wild – and to ask: What are the neural bases of navigation and other natural behaviors outdoors, in the real world? To this end, we record place-cells and head-direction cells in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island in Tanzania – off the coast of Zanzibar.

Our discoveries include

• Head-direction cells do exist outdoors!
• More – soon…