Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others.

ABSTRACT: Everyday tasks in social settings require humans to encode neural representations of not only their own spatial location, but also the location of other individuals within an environment. At present, the vast majority of what is known about neural representations of space for self and others stems from research in rodents and other non-human animals^1-3. However, it is largely unknown how the human brain represents the location of others, and how aspects of human cognition may affect these location-encoding mechanisms. To address these questions, we examined individuals with chronically implanted electrodes while they carried out real-world spatial navigation and observation tasks. We report boundary-anchored neural representations in the medial temporal lobe that are modulated b

SUBMITTER: Stangl M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189322 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature