Spatial Cognition and Navigation

This study identifies three parallel brain pathways that represent 3D scene geometry during spatial navigation, extending beyond classical visual processing models.

The paper investigates how explicit instructions to use allocentric landmarks improve reach accuracy, precision, and reaction time compared to ignoring landmarks in a reach task.

This study demonstrates that Dascyllus trimaculatus uses path integration to navigate back to a shelter after foraging, showing homing behavior without relying on landmarks.

The paper demonstrates that humans use an allocentric spatial reference frame to perceive distances on the ground plane, with path-integration mechanisms that are anisotropic and rely on horizontal motion signals.

This paper introduces a dynamic Bayesian actor model to explain endpoint variability in homing tasks by integrating perception, action, and internal representations.

This study investigates how humans combine path integration and landmark cues in virtual navigation, finding that performance varies with environment complexity and individual differences in cue usage.

The paper examines the relationship between object-based spatial abilities and virtual navigation performance using a mobile game, finding limited correlations between navigation tasks and visuospatial tests.

This study investigates how the occipital place area (OPA) represents navigational affordances and ego-motion using dynamic movie stimuli, finding that OPA responds to both cues and their conflicts, unlike PPA and MPA.

This study investigates how early blindness affects grid-like coding in the entorhinal cortex and finds altered symmetry patterns compared to sighted individuals.

This study finds that video gaming is linked to better spatial navigation performance, while GPS reliance is not, and gender differences in navigation are reduced after accounting for gaming experience.

The paper investigates whether heading direction in different brain regions is encoded in allocentric or egocentric coordinates, finding that superior parietal and retrosplenial regions use an egocentric code while the entorhinal cortex uses an allocentric code.

This study shows that age differences in spatial memory are reduced when tested in a naturalistic virtual reality environment compared to a desktop-based one.

The paper examines how starting to drive solo before age 18 affects wayfinding ability using a mobile game task and self-reported driving data.

This paper develops a machine learning approach to estimate person-specific neural correlates of mental rotation, showing improved prediction of reaction times compared to group-level averages.

The paper investigates how spatial contextual information affects early neural markers of scene perception and navigational affordance processing using ERP data from a memory task.

The paper proposes a Euclidean metric map with systematic distortion to model human navigation in non-Euclidean environments, showing it matches behavioral data as well as non-metric models.

This study shows that mental search involves egocentric vector representations and restructured grid maps in the parietal cortex during conceptual task performance.

The paper investigates whether spatial navigation involves parallel or serial processing of self-motion and landmark cues using EEG oscillations during virtual navigation.

This study shows that scene-selective brain regions encode vertical position of navigational objects in both young and older adults, independent of retinotopic biases.

This study examines age-related differences in gaze patterns and EEG activity in scene-selective brain regions during spatial navigation tasks involving vertical object positioning.

This paper introduces an immersive sketching paradigm in virtual reality to study how presence and body orientation affect memory of distant places.

The paper examines overconfidence and the Dunning-Kruger effect in spatial navigation across 46 countries using data from 376,836 participants.

This study investigates how genotype, age, sex, and navigation affect pathway integration performance in a virtual environment, finding gene-age-sex interactions influence distance and angle estimation.

This study uses fMRI and pattern classification to show that multiple dynamic brain networks code for past, present, and future navigation trajectories in humans.

The paper examines cultural influences on self-estimated navigation ability versus actual performance across 46 countries using a large sample.

The paper shows that navigational affordances are processed later than visual features in the human brain using EEG and computational models.

This study shows that six weeks of training with the feelSpace belt improves spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual city, particularly in survey and route knowledge tasks.

This study investigates how egocentric cues influence spatial memory of landmark configurations during memory-guided actions, finding that observer shifts increase errors and more landmarks enhance allocentric reliance.

This study shows that children and older adults can use allocentric navigation strategies equally when geometric cues are available, challenging the idea that strategy preference is age-related.

The paper shows that semantic similarity of place names influences route choice and spatial region formation in a virtual environment.