Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BYU students and a group of Girl Scouts make their way through a corn maze at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi on Sept. 25, 2012. Why do ...

Our sense of direction is essential to our ability to navigate the world around us. It acts as the brain's internal compass to help us find our way and, just as importantly, to prompt us to change ...

As I mentioned in the last post, I used to have a pathetic sense of direction. I couldn't find my way out of the proverbial paper bag. If I was driving and approached an intersection from an ...

We've all experienced it: some people could be blindfolded, shoved in the trunk of a car and tossed out on the side of a dirt road in the woods and have no problem whatsoever finding their way home, ...