The hippocampus and entorhinal cortex encode the path and euclidean distances to goals during navigation

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1331-1340

  Howard, Lorelei R ^a,b   Javadi, Amir Homayoun ^a   Yu, Yichao ^c   Mill, Ravi D ^d   Morrison, Laura C ^a   Knight, Rebecca ^e   Loftus, Michelle M ^a   Staskute, Laura ^a   Spiers, Hugo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ENGLAND; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CUES; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; ORIENTATION; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902592938     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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