Human navigation that requires calculating heading vectors recruits parietal cortex in a virtual and visually sparse water maze task in fMRI

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 532-540

  Rodriguez, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Hippocampus; Retrosplenial cortex; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAZE TEST; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955778871     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020231     Document Type: Article

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