# Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are

How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 9 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/NeilBurgess_2011S)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/NeilBurgess_2011S?play=1)