Human Navigation: Occipital Place Area Detects Potential Paths in a Scene

Abstract

Navigation — determining how to get from where you are to somewhere else — has obvious importance for the survival of motile animals. A new neuroimaging study has revealed that, in the human brain, the occipital place area detects the number of possible paths in a vista

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This paper was published in UCL Discovery.

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