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Tricking the Brain’s Inner GPS: Virtual Reality Study Reveals New Brain Mechanisms


Researchers have noted grid cell activity in the human brain when self-location illusions are induced by multisensory virtual reality, without changing visual perspectives. Dr. Hyuk-June Moon from the Bionics Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), in collaboratio

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