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Neuropsychology of environmental navigation in humans: review and meta-analysis of FMRI studies in healthy participants.
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92 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A meta-analysis of sex differences in human navigation skills.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Pooled it
- Meta-analytic evidence for a core problem solving network across multiple representational domains.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2018Pooled it
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- Cortical dynamics are differentially associated with decision-making strategies in human wayfinding: An EEG study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Complementary roles of the human perirhinal and the entorhinal cortex in the hippocampal retrieval of episodic memory.iScience · 2025Article
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- Perceptual learning and neural correlates of virtual navigation in subjective cognitive decline: A pilot study.iScience · 2024Article
- Noninvasive modulation of the hippocampal-entorhinal complex during spatial navigation in humans.Science advances · 2024Article
- Altered functional connectivity of primary olfactory cortex-hippocampus-frontal cortex in subjective cognitive decline during odor stimulation.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Distance and grid-like codes support the navigation of abstract social space in the human brain.eLife · 2024Article
- Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Occipital Place Area Is Recruited for Echo-Acoustically Guided Navigation in Blind Human Echolocators.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Subcortical functional connectivity and its association with walking performance following deployment related mild TBI.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Real-World Navigation With Application: Characteristics of Gaze Behavior and Associated Factors in Older Adults.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
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Abstract
In the past 20 years, many studies in the cognitive neurosciences have analyzed human ability to navigate in recently learned and familiar environments by investigating the cognitive processes involved in successful navigation. In this study, we reviewed the main experimental paradigms and made a cognitive-oriented meta-analysis of fMRI studies of human navigation to underline the importance of the experimental designs and cognitive tasks used to assess navigational skills. We performed a general activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis of 66 fMRI experiments to identify the neural substrates underpinning general aspects of human navigation. Four individual ALE analyses were performed to identify the neural substrates of different experimental paradigms (i.e., familiar vs. recently learned environments) and different navigational strategies (allocentric vs. egocentric). Results of the general ALE analysis highlighted a wide network of areas with clusters in the occipital, parietal, frontal and temporal lobes, especially in the parahippocampal cortex. Familiar environments seem to be processed by an extended temporal-frontal network, whereas recently learned environments require activation in the parahippocampal cortex and the parietal and occipital lobes. Allocentric strategy is subtended by the same areas as egocentric strategy, but the latter elicits greater activation in the right precuneus, middle occipital lobe and angular gyrus. Our results suggest that different neural correlates are involved in recalling a well-learned or recently acquired environment and that different networks of areas subtend egocentric and allocentric strategies.
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