Human Navigation: Occipital Place Area Detects Potential Paths in a Scene

E Z Patai¹, H J Spiers²

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¹ Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK. Electronic address: e.patai@ucl.ac.uk.
² Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK. Electronic address: h.spiers@ucl.ac.uk.

PMID: 28633030
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.012

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Human Navigation: Occipital Place Area Detects Potential Paths in a Scene

E Z Patai et al. Curr Biol. 2017.

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. 2017 Jun 19;27(12):R599-R600.

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.012.

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E Z Patai¹, H J Spiers²

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¹ Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK. Electronic address: e.patai@ucl.ac.uk.
² Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK. Electronic address: h.spiers@ucl.ac.uk.

PMID: 28633030
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.012

Abstract

Navigation - determining how to get from where you are to somewhere else - has obvious importance for the survival of motile animals. A new neuroimaging study has revealed that, in the human brain, the occipital place area detects the number of possible paths in a vista.

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