Differential recruitment of the hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex, and the human motion complex during path integration in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 35, 2007, Pages 9408-9416

  Wolbers, Thomas ^a,b   Wiener, Jan M ^c,d   Mallot, Hanspeter A ^d   Büchel, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Hippocampus; Navigation; Path integration; Spatial memory; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548423324     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2146-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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