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Human entorhinal cortex represents visual space using a boundary-anchored grid.

ABSTRACT: When participants performed a visual search task, functional MRI responses in entorhinal cortex exhibited a sixfold periodic modulation by gaze-movement direction. The orientation of this modulation was determined by the shape and orientation of the bounded search space. These results indicate that human entorhinal cortex represents visual space using a boundary-anchored grid, analogous to that used by rodents to represent navigable space.

SUBMITTER: Julian JB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5801057 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Human entorhinal cortex represents visual space using a boundary-anchored grid.

Julian Joshua B JB Keinath Alexandra T AT Frazzetta Giulia G Epstein Russell A RA

Nature neuroscience 20180108 2

When participants performed a visual search task, functional MRI responses in entorhinal cortex exhibited a sixfold periodic modulation by gaze-movement direction. The orientation of this modulation was determined by the shape and orientation of the bounded search space. These results indicate that human entorhinal cortex represents visual space using a boundary-anchored grid, analogous to that used by rodents to represent navigable space. ...[more]

PMID: 29311745

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Human entorhinal cortex represents visual space using a boundary-anchored grid.

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Human entorhinal cortex represents visual space using a boundary-anchored grid.

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