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SUBMITTER: Persichetti AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4808380 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Persichetti Andrew S AS Dilks Daniel D DD
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 20160217
Behavioral studies in many species and studies in robotics have demonstrated two sources of information critical for visually-guided navigation: sense (left-right) information and egocentric distance (proximal-distal) information. A recent fMRI study found sensitivity to sense information in two scene-selective cortical regions, the retrosplenial complex (RSC) and the occipital place area (OPA), consistent with hypotheses that these regions play a role in human navigation. Surprisingly, however, ...[more]