Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Behavior-dependent directional tuning in the human visual-navigation network

  • Matthias Nau,
  • Tobias Navarro Schröder,
  • Markus Frey,
  • Christian F. Doeller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17000-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Our brain derives a sense of direction from visual inputs. Here, the authors combine 7T-fMRI with predictive modeling of virtual navigation to show that the strength, width and topology of directional coding in the human brain reflect ongoing memory-guided behavior.