Challenges for identifying the neural mechanisms that support spatial navigation: The impact of spatial scale

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Wolbers, Thomas ^a   Wiener, Jan M ^b  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allocentric and egocentric representation; Environmental space; Hippocampus; Reference frames; Spatial navigation; Vista space

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84905500800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00571     Document Type: Review

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