How does an animal know where it is when it stops moving? Hippocampal place cells fire at discrete locations as subjects traverse space, thereby providing an explicit neural code for current location during locomotion. In contrast, during awake immobility, the hippocampus is thought to be dominated by neural firing representing past and possible future experience. The question of whether and how the hippocampus constructs...
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How you’ll use Microsoft’s HoloLens: New videos show clicking, gazing and spatial sound
Remember thinking about whether to hit the right or left mouse button when clicking on something in the early days of computing? Now that holograms are our future, we’re going to have to learn how to click on things all over again.
Along with announcing the HoloLens developer kit ship date today, Microsoft also debuted a ton of new videos for developers that provide an inside glimpse of how the augmented...
Spatial and temporal distribution of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet since AD 1900
The response of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) to changes in temperature during the twentieth century remains contentious, largely owing to difficulties in estimating the spatial and temporal distribution of ice mass changes before 1992, when Greenland-wide observations first became available. The only previous estimates of change during the twentieth century are based on empirical modelling and energy balance modelling. Consequently, no observation-based estimates of...