ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2017
Interacting networks of brain regions underlie human spatial navigation: a review and novel synthesis of the literature.
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86 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 184 citations in OpenAlex.
- Common and specific activations supporting optic flow processing and navigation as revealed by a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.Brain structure & function · 2024Pooled it
- Neural synchrony and cognitive map formulation in collaborative navigation: leader-follower couplings revealed by EEG hyperscanning.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2026Article
- Designing for memory: how pathway configuration shapes long-term navigational representations.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Long-term memory reorganization of navigational episodes.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Neighborhood disorder impacts cognitive processing during navigation on a novel virtual reality paradigm.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Does viewing a top-down map facilitate spatial learning from navigation in a virtual environment?Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026Article
- Deep learning approaches to map individual differences in macroscopic neural structure with variations in spatial navigation behavior.Neuropsychologia · 2026Article
- Preference for directional responding in a virtual Morris water task is associated with increased precuneus activation in adolescent humans.Behavioural brain research · 2026Article
- Cortical dynamics are differentially associated with decision-making strategies in human wayfinding: An EEG study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Impaired consolidation of spatial memory during sleep in patients with leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1-associated limbic encephalitis.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Distinct aging-related profiles of allocentric knowledge recall following navigation in an immersive, naturalistic, city-like environment.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
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- A map of the cortical functional network mediating naturalistic navigation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Despite dense amnesia, patients with hippocampal lesions show partially intact navigation for recent and remotely learned environments.Neuropsychologia · 2025Article
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- Sparse memory ensembles set brain-wide network states to sustain learned associations.iScience · 2025Article
- Inferior and Middle Longitudinal Fasciculus and Fornix Support Allocentric Representation.Hippocampus · 2025Article
- Understanding the return journey: Determinants of route retracing in younger and older adults.Psychology and aging · 2025Article
- A cognitive-motor framework for spatial navigation in aging and early-stage Alzheimer's disease.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2025Review
- Developmental exposure to legacy environmental contaminants, medial temporal lobe volumes and spatial navigation memory in late adolescents.Environmental research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Navigation is an inherently dynamic and multimodal process, making isolation of the unique cognitive components underlying it challenging. The assumptions of much of the literature on human spatial navigation are that 1) spatial navigation involves modality independent, discrete metric representations (i.e., egocentric vs. allocentric), 2) such representations can be further distilled to elemental cognitive processes, and 3) these cognitive processes can be ascribed to unique brain regions. We argue that modality-independent spatial representations, instead of providing exact metrics about our surrounding environment, more often involve heuristics for estimating spatial topology useful to the current task at hand. We also argue that egocentric (body centered) and allocentric (world centered) representations are better conceptualized as involving a continuum rather than as discrete. We propose a neural model to accommodate these ideas, arguing that such representations also involve a continuum of network interactions centered on retrosplenial and posterior parietal cortex, respectively. Our model thus helps explain both behavioral and neural findings otherwise difficult to account for with classic models of spatial navigation and memory, providing a testable framework for novel experiments.
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