Last updated on March 13, 2014 at 18:18 EDT  Studying How Brains
Work When Bats Are On The Move  April 19, 2013 Image Credit:
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Online  Two new studies, published this week in Science, examine
the mechanisms of animal navigation using bat models.   The
first study is the result of collaboration between University of
Maryland (UMD), College Park and Boston University (BU). The
findings, based on brain rhythms in bats and rats, challenges a
widely-used model — based solely on rodents — of how animals
navigate their environment.  The study authors say that
neuroscientists, in order to get a clearer picture of the
processes at work in the mammalian brain during spatial
navigation, must closely study a broad range of animals instead
of just one species.  The scientists reported significant
difference between the brain rhythms of bats and rats in the
part of the brain used for navigation. They found specialized
cells used for processing spatial information in