{"id":2117,"date":"2019-12-11T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T02:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2019-12-11T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T02:21:56","slug":"how-the-human-brain-encodes-allocentric-boundary-and-goal-direction-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2117","title":{"rendered":"How the human brain encodes allocentric boundary and goal direction information?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shine, J.P., Vald\u00e9s-Herrera, J.P., Tempelmann, C.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0<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>.\u00a0<i>Nat Commun<\/i>\u00a0<b>10,\u00a0<\/b>4004 (2019) doi:10.1038\/s41467-019-11802-9<\/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<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">there is no evidence that they contain allocentric direction information<\/span><\/strong>. Furthermore, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">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. 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. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">These data provide the first evidence of allocentric boundary coding in humans, and are consistent with recent conceptualisations of a division of labour within the EC.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shine, J.P., Vald\u00e9s-Herrera, J.P., Tempelmann, C.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0<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>.\u00a0<i>Nat Commun<\/i>\u00a0<b>10,\u00a0<\/b>4004 (2019) doi:10.1038\/s41467-019-11802-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shine, J.P., Vald\u00e9s-Herrera, J.P., Tempelmann, C.\u00a0et al.\u00a0Evidence for allocentric boundary and goal direction information in the human entorhinal cortex and subiculum.\u00a0Nat Commun\u00a010,\u00a04004 (2019) doi:10.1038\/s41467-019-11802-9 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 accurate positional coding. Although in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,346],"tags":[564,546,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117"}],"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=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}