What about “space” is important for episodic memory?

CL Fan, HM Sokolowski… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Early cognitive neuroscientific research revealed that the hippocampus is crucial for spatial
navigation in rodents, and for autobiographical episodic memory in humans. Researchers …

An important step toward understanding the role of body-based cues on human spatial memory for large-scale environments

DJ Huffman, AD Ekstrom - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Moving our body through space is fundamental to human navigation; however, technical
and physical limitations have hindered our ability to study the role of these body-based cues …

A modality-independent network underlies the retrieval of large-scale spatial environments in the human brain

DJ Huffman, AD Ekstrom - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
In humans, the extent to which body-based cues, such as vestibular, somatosensory, and
motoric cues, are necessary for normal expression of spatial representations remains …

Evaluating augmented reality landmark cues and frame of reference displays with virtual reality

Y Zhao, J Stefanucci, S Creem-Regehr… - … on Visualization and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Daily travel usually demands navigation on foot across a variety of different application
domains, including tasks like search and rescue or commuting. Head-mounted augmented …

Landmarks: A solution for spatial navigation and memory experiments in virtual reality

MJ Starrett, AS McAvan, DJ Huffman, JD Stokes… - Behavior research …, 2021 - Springer
Research into the behavioral and neural correlates of spatial cognition and navigation has
benefited greatly from recent advances in virtual reality (VR) technology. Devices such as …

Using spontaneous eye blink-related brain activity to investigate cognitive load during mobile map-assisted navigation

B Cheng, E Lin, A Wunderlich, K Gramann… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The continuous assessment of pedestrians' cognitive load during a naturalistic mobile map-
assisted navigation task is challenging because of limited experimental control over stimulus …

Route sequence knowledge supports the formation of cognitive maps

C Hilton, J Wiener - Hippocampus, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we examined the extent to which knowledge about the sequence of places
encountered during route learning supports the formation of a metric cognitive map. In a …

Current promises and limitations of combined virtual reality and functional magnetic resonance imaging research in humans: a commentary on Huffman and Ekstrom

A Steel, CE Robertson, JS Taube - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Real-world navigation requires movement of the body through space, producing a
continuous stream of visual and self-motion signals, including proprioceptive, vestibular, and …

[HTML][HTML] The advantage of globally visible landmarks for spatial learning

S Credé, T Thrash, C Hölscher, SI Fabrikant - Journal of Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite much recent interest, it is unclear which types of landmarks are best suited for
survey knowledge acquisition. Thus, we investigated the accuracy of survey knowledge after …

Grid coding, spatial representation, and navigation: Should we assume an isomorphism?

AD Ekstrom, SK Harootonian, DJ Huffman - Hippocampus, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Grid cells provide a compelling example of a link between cellular activity and an abstract
and difficult to define concept like space. Accordingly, a representational perspective on grid …