{"id":2023,"date":"2019-09-06T22:53:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T12:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2019-09-06T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T12:53:29","slug":"how-does-the-human-brain-represent-boundary-and-goal-direction-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"How does the human brain represent boundary and goal direction information?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shine, Jonathan, Jose Pedro Valdes-Herrera, Claus Tempelmann, and Thomas Wolbers. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-11802-9\"><strong>Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculum<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Nature Communications volume\u00a010, Article\u00a0number:\u00a04004\u00a0(2019)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;In rodents, cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (EC) and subiculum code for the allocentric direction to environment boundaries, which is an important prerequisite for accurate positional coding. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Although in humans boundary-related signals have been reported, there is no evidence that they contain allocentric direction information.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Furthermore, it has not been possible to separate boundary versus goal direction signals in the EC\/subiculum.<\/span><\/strong> Here, to address these questions, we had participants learn a virtual environment containing four unique boundaries. Participants then underwent fMRI scanning where they made judgements about the allocentric direction of a cue object. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Using multivariate decoding, we found information regarding allocentric boundary direction in posterior EC and subiculum, whereas allocentric goal direction was decodable from anterior EC and subiculum.<\/span> <\/strong>These data provide <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the first evidence of allocentric boundary coding in humans, and are consistent with recent conceptualisations of a division of labour within the EC<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shine, Jonathan, Jose Pedro Valdes-Herrera, Claus Tempelmann, and Thomas Wolbers. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-11802-9\"><strong>Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculum<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Nature Communications volume\u00a010, Article\u00a0number:\u00a04004\u00a0(2019)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shine, Jonathan, Jose Pedro Valdes-Herrera, Claus Tempelmann, and Thomas Wolbers. &#8220;Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculum.&#8221; Nature Communications volume\u00a010, Article\u00a0number:\u00a04004\u00a0(2019) Abstract &#8220;In rodents, cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (EC) and subiculum code for the allocentric direction to environment boundaries, which is an important prerequisite for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[546,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}