Outside looking in: Landmark generalization in the human navigational system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 44, 2015, Pages 14896-14908

  Marchette, Steven A ^a   Vass, Lindsay K ^a   Ryan, Jack ^a   Epstein, Russell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Multivoxel pattern analysis; Object recognition; Parahippocampal place area; Retrosplenial complex; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL NAVIGATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946423176     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2270-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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