Bat – Knowing Neurons

An Eternal Search For a “Cure”: How Real-World Diseases May Have Led to the Modern Vampire

October 31, 2022October 30, 2022 Ayushe Sharma Bat, Disease, Halloween, immortality, Myth, neuroscience myths, photosensitivity, porphyria, rabies, stories, vampire

By Anastasiia Gryshyna and Ayushe Sharma Vampires have been a source of fascination for centuries. Whether portrayed as bloodthirsty killers, immortality-seeking psychopaths, or misunderstood romantics, these creatures of the night… Read more

52 Brain Facts Sensation and Perception

Myth or Fact? Some People Can Use Echolocation

July 18, 2016June 5, 2019 knowingneurons 52 Brain Facts, Audition, auditory, Bat, Blind, Cane, Click, Cortex, Echolocation, Hear, Hearing, Location, Navigate, Sense, Sight, Sound, Tap, Vision, Whale

Did You Know? Movement Sensation and Perception

Navigating a 3D World

May 29, 2014March 5, 2017 Ryan Jones 2013, 3D, Bat, Hippocampus, Map, Place Cell, Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats, Science, Three-dimensional, Two-dimensional, Ulanovsky, Weizmann Institute of Science, Yartsev

The brain has an amazing ability to form internal maps of the world around it. Knowing Neurons has previously written several articles about place cells in the hippocampus and how… Read more