Spatial Cognition and Navigation

Geometry representations along visual pathways in human spatial navigation

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

Instruction Alters The Influence Of Allocentric Landmarks In A Reach Task

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.

Evidence for homing behaviour consistent with path integration in Dascyllus trimaculatus

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

An allocentric human odometer for perceiving distances on the ground plane

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.

A Dynamic Bayesian Actor Model explains Endpoint Variability in Homing Tasks

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

Not seeing the forest for the trees: Combination of path integration and landmark cues in human virtual navigation

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 relationship between object-based spatial ability and virtual navigation performance

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.

Representation of navigational affordances and ego-motion in the occipital place area

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.

Altered grid-like coding in early blind people

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

Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance

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.

Disentangling reference frames in the neural compass.

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.

Age differences in spatial memory are mitigated during naturalistic navigation

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.

Individuals learning to drive solo before age 18 have superior spatial navigation ability compared with those who learn later

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

Estimating person-specific neural correlates of mental rotation: A machine learning approach

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.

Spatial contextual information modulates affordance processing and early electrophysiological markers of scene perception

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.

Metric information in cognitive maps: Euclidean embedding of non-Euclidean environments

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.

Mental search of concepts is supported by egocentric vector representations and restructured grid maps

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

Frontal-midline theta and posterior alpha oscillations index early processing of spatial representations during active navigation

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

Scene-selective regions encode the vertical position of navigationally relevant information in young and older adulthood

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

Age-related disparities in oscillatory dynamics within scene-selective regions during spatial navigation

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.

Presence and perceived body orientation affect the recall of out-of-sight places in an immersive sketching experiment

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

From overconfidence to task dropout in a spatial navigation test: evidence for the Dunning-Kruger effect across 46 countries

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

Modeling the impact of genotype, age, sex, and continuous navigation on pathway integration performance

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.

Navigational systems in the human brain dynamically code for past, present, and future trajectories

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

Cultural determinants of the gap between self-estimated navigation ability and wayfinding performance: evidence from 46 countries.

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

Visual features are processed before navigational affordances in the human brain

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

Improved spatial knowledge acquisition through sensory augmentation

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.

Egocentric cues influence the spatial memory of landmark configurations for memory-guided actions

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.

Modulation of spatial cue processing across the lifespan: a geometric polarization of space restores allocentric navigation strategies in children and older adults

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.

When your border and my border differ: Spatial regionalisation and route choice depends on perceived landmark categorization

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