Distributed cognitive maps reflecting real distances between places and views in the human brain

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sulpizio, Valentina ^a   Committeri, Giorgia ^b   Galati, Gaspare ^a,c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Hippocampus; Multivoxel pattern analysis; Navigation; Parahippocampal place area; Representational similarity analysis; Retrosplenial complex; Spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933671271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00716     Document Type: Article

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