Lisa Giocomo, an assistant professor of neurobiology in the School of Medicine, and Surya Ganguli, an assistant professor of applied physics, received a seed grant in 2014 to figure out exactly how the brain navigates. Some neurons behaved like they were supposed to, but the researchers found that most had noisy, error-prone navigation, much like a broken GPS.
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