ReviewNeuron2023
Spatial navigation and memory: A review of the similarities and differences relevant to brain models and age.
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50 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on spatial memory: a systematic review across animal and human studies.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Neural networks underlying magnitude perception: a specific meta-analysis of fMRI studies.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of the neuropathology and memory decline induced by monosodium glutamate in the Alzheimer's disease-like animal model.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- Hippocampal subfield plasticity is associated with improved spatial memory.Communications biology · 2024Trial
- Memory on ice: spatial memory is retained over a 9-month hibernation period in Columbian ground squirrels.Biology letters · 2026Article
- Was the fruit in front of me or near the river? Biological relevance and reference frame preferences in object-location memory across the lifespan.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Long-term memory reorganization of navigational episodes.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Postpartum enhancement of spatial learning and cognitive flexibility: an IntelliCage study.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2026Article
- Understanding Adults' Spatial Cognitive Processes: A Time-Embedded N-Grams Model with Machine Learning.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Neighborhood disorder impacts cognitive processing during navigation on a novel virtual reality paradigm.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Brain morphology in Anorexia Nervosa and its subtypes: A multi-cohort study of individual participant data.PLoS medicine · 2026Article
- Lost in Space and Thought: Navigating the Cognitive Map in Alzheimer's Disease.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Review
- Virtual Morris Water Task: Procedures and Protocols for the Assessment of Spatial Navigation and Memory.Current protocols · 2026Article
- Distinct aging-related profiles of allocentric knowledge recall following navigation in an immersive, naturalistic, city-like environment.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- A novel early screening approach for MCI due to AD based on a "maze" hand-interaction kinetic paradigm.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Angular path integration errors are greater for trajectories with full loop crossovers.Spatial cognition and computation · 2026Article
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- Time or distance encoding by hippocampal neurons via heterogeneous ramping rates.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Despite dense amnesia, patients with hippocampal lesions show partially intact navigation for recent and remotely learned environments.Neuropsychologia · 2025Article
- Using Virtual Reality to Assess Spatial Navigation Ability in Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR aging · 2025Article
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Abstract
Spatial navigation and memory are often seen as heavily intertwined at the cognitive and neural levels of analysis. We review models that hypothesize a central role for the medial temporal lobes, including the hippocampus, in both navigation and aspects of memory, particularly allocentric navigation and episodic memory. While these models have explanatory power in instances in which they overlap, they are limited in explaining functional and neuroanatomical differences. Focusing on human cognition, we explore the idea of navigation as a dynamically acquired skill and memory as an internally driven process, which may better account for the differences between the two. We also review network models of navigation and memory, which place a greater emphasis on connections rather than the functions of focal brain regions. These models, in turn, may have greater explanatory power for the differences between navigation and memory and the differing effects of brain lesions and age.
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