Communications Biology (Nov 2021)

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

  • Simone Viganò,
  • Valerio Rubino,
  • Marco Buiatti,
  • Manuela Piazza

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02806-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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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.