ArticleNature communications2024
Human navigation strategies and their errors result from dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties.
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- Uncovering persistent biases in human path integration by separating left and right trials.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Vision Fine-Tunes Predictions of Bimanual Self-Touch.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- A psychological network analysis of self-reported spatial cognitive strategies in commercial airline pilots and non-pilots.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Decoding hidden goal-directed navigational states and their neuronal representations using a novel labyrinth paradigm and probabilistic modeling framework.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Natural visually guided behavior.Brain research · 2025Article
- Computational elements of natural vision.Journal of vision · 2025Review
- Spatial priors affect sensory weighting in navigation and landing in Egyptian fruit bats.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Approaches to understanding natural behavior.Journal of vision · 2025Review
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Abstract
Goal-directed navigation requires continuously integrating uncertain self-motion and landmark cues into an internal sense of location and direction, concurrently planning future paths, and sequentially executing motor actions. Here, we provide a unified account of these processes with a computational model of probabilistic path planning in the framework of optimal feedback control under uncertainty. This model gives rise to diverse human navigational strategies previously believed to be distinct behaviors and predicts quantitatively both the errors and the variability of navigation across numerous experiments. This furthermore explains how sequential egocentric landmark observations form an uncertain allocentric cognitive map, how this internal map is used both in route planning and during execution of movements, and reconciles seemingly contradictory results about cue-integration behavior in navigation. Taken together, the present work provides a parsimonious explanation of how patterns of human goal-directed navigation behavior arise from the continuous and dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties in perception, cognition, and action.
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