Neural systems for landmark-based wayfinding in humans

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1635, 2014, Pages

  Epstein, Russell A ^a   Vass, Lindsay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hippocampus; Parahippocampal cortex; Parietal lobe; Retrosplenial cortex; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890894929     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0533     Document Type: Review

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