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The neural representation of absolute direction during mental navigation in conceptual spaces


ABSTRACT: When humans mentally “navigate” bidimensional uniform conceptual spaces, they recruit the same grid-like and distance codes typically evoked when exploring the physical environment. Here, using fMRI, we show evidence that conceptual navigation also elicits another kind of spatial code: that of absolute direction. This code is mostly localized in the medial parietal cortex, where its strength predicts participants’ comparative semantic judgments. It may provide a complementary mechanism for conceptual navigation outside the hippocampal formation. Viganò et al. use fMRI in healthy human participants to show that conceptual navigation elicits a spatial code for absolute direction in the medial parietal cortex. Their findings are suggestive of a complementary mechanism for conceptual navigation outside the hippocampal formation.

SUBMITTER: Vigano S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8595308 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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