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Challenges for identifying the neural mechanisms that support spatial navigation: the impact of spatial scale. [PDF]
, 2014 Spatial navigation is a fascinating behavior that is essential for our everyday lives. It involves nearly all sensory systems, it requires numerous parallel computations, and it engages multiple memory systems.
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Facilitation of allocentric coding by virtue of object-semantics [PDF]
, 2019 In the field of spatial coding it is well established that we mentally represent objects for action not only relative to ourselves, egocentrically, but also relative to other objects (landmarks), allocentrically.
Fiehler, Katja +2 more
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Visual experience facilitates allocentric spatial representation [PDF]
Behavioural Brain Research, 2013 Representing the position of the objects independently from our own position is a fundamental cognitive ability. Here we investigated whether this ability depends on visual experience. Congenitally blind, late blind and blindfolded sighted participants haptically learnt a room-sized regularly shaped array of objects, and their spatial memory was tested
Pasqualotto, Achille +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 While the widely studied allocentric spatial representation holds a special status in neuroscience research, its exact nature and neural underpinnings continue to be the topic of debate, particularly in humans.
Arne D. Ekstrom +3 more
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Altered hippocampal function in major depression despite intact structure and resting perfusion [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Hippocampal volume reductions in major depression have been frequently reported. However, evidence for functional abnormalities in the same region in depression has been less clear.
A. Finkelmeyer +18 more
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Egocentric and Allocentric Representations in Auditory Cortex [PDF]
PLOS Biology, 2017 AbstractA key function of the brain is to provide a stable representation of an object’s location in the world. In hearing, sound azimuth and elevation are encoded by neurons throughout the auditory system and auditory cortex is necessary for sound localization.
Town, Stephen M. +2 more
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Egocentric and allocentric spatial memory in healthy aging: performance on real-world tasks
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2019 Although normal aging has been related to several cognitive difficulties, other processes have been studied less, such as spatial memory. Our aim was to compare egocentric and allocentric memory in an elderly population using ecological tasks.
C. Fernandez-Baizan +3 more
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Genetic contributions to visuospatial cognition in Williams syndrome: insights from two contrasting partial deletion patients [PDF]
, 2014 Background Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder arising from a hemizygotic deletion of approximately 27 genes on chromosome 7, at locus 7q11.23.
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A Principle for Learning Egocentric-Allocentric Transformation [PDF]
Neural Computation, 2008 Numerous single-unit recording studies have found mammalian hippocampal neurons that fire selectively for the animal's location in space, independent of its orientation. The population of such neurons, commonly known as place cells, is thought to maintain an allocentric, or orientation-independent, internal representation of the animal's location in ...
Byrne, Patrick, Becker, Suzanna
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2011 Neuropsychological evidence suggests that different brain areas may be involved in movements that are directed at visual targets (e.g. pointing or reaching), and movements that are based on allocentric visual information (e.g. drawing or copying).
Lore eThaler, Melvyn A. Goodale
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