Differential hippocampal and retrosplenial involvement in egocentric-updating, rotation, and allocentric processing during online spatial encoding: An fMRI study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Gomez, Alice ^a,b   Cerles, Mélanie ^a   Rousset, Stéphane ^a   Rémy, Chantal ^c,d   Baciu, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Egocentric; Hippocampus; Navigation; Retrosplenial; Rotation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOCENTRIC PROCESSING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGOCENTRIC PROCESSING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84896989654     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00150     Document Type: Article

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