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Letter: For the record

Published 3 February 2010

• Possessing a “grid” of brain cells that helps us to navigate might explain why some people are better at finding their way around than others (23 January, p 15). Although these cells provide a virtual grid on which locations in the world can be represented in the brain, we should have made it clear that the cells themselves are not arranged in a physical grid.

Issue no. 2746 published 6 February 2010

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