Does an Oblique/Slanted Perspective during Virtual Navigation Engage Both Egocentric and Allocentric Brain Strategies?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Barra, Julien ^a,b   Laou, Laetitia ^b   Poline, Jean Baptiste ^c   Lebihan, Denis ^c   Berthoz, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; RECALL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870332518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049537     Document Type: Article

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