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Tricking the Brain's inner GPS: Grid cells responses to the illusion of self-location - EurekAlert


<p>Dr. Hyuk-June Moon from the Bionics Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), in collaboration with Prof. Olaf Blanke&rsquo;s team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), has successfully induced self-location illusions with multi-sensory virtual reality (VR) in the MRI scanner and observed corresponding changes in the human brain&#39;s grid cell activity.</p>

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