ArticleNature communications2020
Sources of path integration error in young and aging humans.
Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed.
- How visual context influences lateral stepping regulation while walking on winding paths.Journal of neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Environment geometry alters sequential route learning and its integration into cognitive maps.Nature communications · 2026Article
- rTCT: Rodent Triangle Completion Task to Facilitate Reverse Translational Study of Path Integration.Hippocampus · 2026Article
- Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Beyond traditional assessments of cognitive status: Exploring the potential of spatial navigation tasks.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Angular path integration errors are greater for trajectories with full loop crossovers.Spatial cognition and computation · 2026Article
- Distinctive roles of left and right entorhinal cortex in path integration via a non-invasive stimulation study.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Theta Activity Supports Landmark-Based Correction of Naturalistic Human Path Integration.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Rotating visual spaces induce behavioral biases consistent with recalibrated heading integration in humans.iScience · 2025Article
- Grid cells accurately track movement during path integration-based navigation despite switching reference frames.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Path integration impairments reveal early cognitive changes in subjective cognitive decline.Science advances · 2025Article
- Path integration impairments reveal early cognitive changes in Subjective Cognitive Decline.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 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
- rTCT: Rodent Triangle Completion Task to facilitate translational study of path integration.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Rotation errors in path integration are associated with Alzheimer's disease tau pathology: a cross-sectional study.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2025Article
- Predicting real-world navigation performance from a virtual navigation task in older adults.PloS one · 2025Article
- Representational similarity analysis reveals cue-independent spatial representations for landmarks and self-motion cues in human retrosplenial cortex.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Navigation performance in glaucoma: virtual-reality-based assessment of path integration.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Control and recalibration of path integration in place cells using optic flow.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- The influence of travel time on perceived traveled distance varies by spatiotemporal scale.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Path integration plays a vital role in navigation: it enables the continuous tracking of one's position in space by integrating self-motion cues. Path integration abilities vary widely across individuals, and tend to deteriorate in old age. The specific causes of path integration errors, however, remain poorly characterized. Here, we combine tests of path integration performance in participants of different ages with an analysis based on the Langevin equation for diffusive dynamics, which allows us to decompose errors into distinct causes that can corrupt path integration computations. We show that, across age groups, the dominant error source is unbiased noise that accumulates with travel distance not elapsed time, suggesting that the noise originates in the velocity input rather than within the integrator. Age-related declines are primarily traced to a growth in this noise. These findings shed light on the contributors to path integration error and the mechanisms underlying age-related navigational deficits.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.