How do we know where we are, where we have been and where we are going? These are questions that the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) aims to answer.

The Institute seeks to unlock the secrets of memory by studying the neural microcircuits and networks in the hippocampus and associated areas of the brain, where memory is encoded, stored and retrieved. It focuses in particular on the memory of place and direction that underlies our spatial navigation skills.