Late Development of Navigationally Relevant Motion Processing in the Occipital Place Area.

ABSTRACT: Human adults flawlessly and effortlessly navigate boundaries and obstacles in the immediately visible environment, a process we refer to as "visually guided navigation." Neuroimaging work in adults suggests this ability involves the occipital place area (OPA) [1, 2]-a scene-selective region in the dorsal stream that selectively represents information necessary for visually guided navigation [3-9]. Despite progress in understanding the neural basis of visually guided navigation, however, little is known about how this system develops. Is navigationally relevant information processing present in the first few years of life? Or does this information processing only develop after many years of experience? Although a handful of studies have found selective responses to scenes (relative to objec

SUBMITTER: Kamps FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7730705 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature