ReviewCurrent biology : CB2018
The Neurocognitive Basis of Spatial Reorientation.
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- Topography of Cholinergic Nerve Terminal Vulnerability and Balance Self-Efficacy in Parkinson's Disease.Journal of integrative neuroscience · 2024Observational
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- Human navigation strategies and their errors result from dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- The neuroscience of turning heads.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Altered grid-like coding in early blind people.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Perceived spatial presence and body orientation affect the recall of out-of-sight places in an immersive sketching experiment.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Mapping the functional and structural connectivity of the scene network.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The ability to recover one's bearings when lost is a skill that is fundamental for spatial navigation. We review the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie this ability, with the aim of linking together previously disparate findings from animal behavior, human psychology, electrophysiology, and cognitive neuroscience. Behavioral work suggests that reorientation involves two key abilities: first, the recovery of a spatial reference frame (a cognitive map) that is appropriate to the current environment; and second, the determination of one's heading and location relative to that reference frame. Electrophysiological recording studies, primarily in rodents, have revealed potential correlates of these operations in place, grid, border/boundary, and head-direction cells in the hippocampal formation. Cognitive neuroscience studies, primarily in humans, suggest that the perceptual inputs necessary for these operations are processed by neocortical regions such as the retrosplenial complex, occipital place area and parahippocampal place area, with the retrosplenial complex mediating spatial transformations between the local environment and the recovered spatial reference frame, the occipital place area supporting perception of local boundaries, and the parahippocampal place area processing visual information that is essential for identification of the local spatial context. By combining results across these various literatures, we converge on a unified account of reorientation that bridges the cognitive and neural domains.
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