Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the 'real world'

M Stangl, SL Maoz, N Suthana - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Cognitive neuroscience studies in humans have enabled decades of impactful discoveries
but have primarily been limited to recording the brain activity of immobile participants in a …

In search of a naturalistic neuroimaging approach: Exploration of general feasibility through the case of VR-fMRI and application in the domain of episodic memory

D Lenormand, P Piolino - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Virtual Reality (VR) is an increasingly widespread tool for research as it allows the creation
of experiments taking place in multimodal and daily-life-like environments, while keeping a …

Changes in spatial self-consciousness elicit grid cell–like representation in the entorhinal cortex

HJ Moon, L Albert, E De Falco, C Tasu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex (EC) encode an individual's location in space, integrating
both environmental and multisensory bodily cues. Notably, body-derived signals are also …

Building embodied spaces for spatial memory neurorehabilitation with virtual reality in normal and pathological aging

C Tuena, S Serino, E Pedroli, M Stramba-Badiale… - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Along with deficits in spatial cognition, a decline in body-related information is observed in
aging and is thought to contribute to impairments in navigation, memory, and space …

Does path integration contribute to human navigation in large-scale space?

C Anastasiou, O Baumann, N Yamamoto - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023 - Springer
Path integration is a process in which navigators estimate their position and orientation
relative to a known location by using body-based internal sensory cues that arise from …

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 …

How Do In-Car Navigation Aids Impair Expert Navigators' Spatial Learning Ability?

Q Ying, W Dong, SI Fabrikant - Annals of the American Association …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Reliance on digital navigation aids has already shown negative impacts on navigators'
innate spatial abilities. How this happens is still an open research question. We report on an …

Electrophysiological signatures of veridical head direction in humans

BJ Griffiths, T Schreiner, JK Schaefer… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Information about heading direction is critical for navigation as it provides the
means to orient ourselves in space. However, given that veridical head-direction signals …

Neuroscience research on human visual path integration: Topical review of the path completion paradigm and underlying role of the hippocampal formation from a …

JY Zhong - Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Over the past 30 years, numerous neuroscientific studies involving both human and rodent
subjects have investigated the brain regions and networks supporting path integration and …

Repetition Suppression Reveals Cue-Specific Spatial Representations for Landmarks and Self-Motion Cues in the Human Retrosplenial Cortex

X Chen, Z Wei, T Wolbers - Eneuro, 2024 - eneuro.org
The efficient use of various spatial cues within a setting is crucial for successful navigation.
Two fundamental forms of spatial navigation, landmark-based and self-motion-based …