Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Coding of navigational affordances in the human visual system.
Trial report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 96 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- From adolescence to adulthood: functional fingerprints of high-level visual cortex reveal differential development of visuospatial processing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A 2D Gabor-wavelet baseline model out-performs a 3D surface model in scene-responsive cortex.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Graph properties drive navigational selection between equidistant routes.Neuropsychologia · 2026Article
- Computational and neural mechanisms underlying the influence of action affordances on value learning.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Early spatiotemporal dynamics of navigational affordance coding in the dorsal visual cortex.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A map of the cortical functional network mediating naturalistic navigation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The effect of gain adaptation on perception and posture.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Cognitive maps for hierarchical spaces in the human brain.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Post-Saccadic Disruption of Semantic Category Information in Naturalistic Scenes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
A central component of spatial navigation is determining where one can and cannot go in the immediate environment. We used fMRI to test the hypothesis that the human visual system solves this problem by automatically identifying the navigational affordances of the local scene. Multivoxel pattern analyses showed that a scene-selective region of dorsal occipitoparietal cortex, known as the occipital place area, represents pathways for movement in scenes in a manner that is tolerant to variability in other visual features. These effects were found in two experiments: One using tightly controlled artificial environments as stimuli, the other using a diverse set of complex, natural scenes. A reconstruction analysis demonstrated that the population codes of the occipital place area could be used to predict the affordances of novel scenes. Taken together, these results reveal a previously unknown mechanism for perceiving the affordance structure of navigable space.
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