{"id":3178,"date":"2025-03-12T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:39:45","slug":"whats-human-neural-dynamics-of-real-world-and-imagined-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Martin Seeber, Matthias Stangl, Mauricio Vallejo Martelo, Uros Topalovic, Sonja Hiller, Casey H. Halpern, Jean-Philippe Langevin, Vikram R. Rao, Itzhak Fried, Dawn Eliashiv &amp; Nanthia Suthana. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02119-3\"><strong>Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation<\/strong><\/a>. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41562-025-02119-3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The ability to form episodic memories and later imagine them is integral to the human experience, influencing our recollection of the past and envisioning of the future<\/span><\/strong>. While rodent studies suggest the medial temporal lobe, especially the hippocampus, is involved in these functions, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">its role in human imagination remains uncertain<\/span><\/strong>. In human participants, imaginations can be explicitly instructed and reported. Here <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">we investigate hippocampal theta oscillations during real-world and imagined navigation<\/span><\/strong> using motion capture and intracranial electroencephalographic recordings from individuals with chronically implanted medial temporal lobe electrodes. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Our results revealed intermittent theta dynamics, particularly within the hippocampus, encoding spatial information and partitioning navigational routes into linear segments during real-world navigation<\/span><\/strong>. During <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">imagined navigation<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">theta dynamics exhibited similar patterns despite the absence of external cues<\/span><\/strong>. A statistical model successfully reconstructed real-world and imagined positions, providing insights into the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">neural mechanisms underlying human navigation and imagination<\/span><\/strong>, with implications for <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">understanding memory in real-world settings<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Martin Seeber, Matthias Stangl, Mauricio Vallejo Martelo, Uros Topalovic, Sonja Hiller, Casey H. Halpern, Jean-Philippe Langevin, Vikram R. Rao, Itzhak Fried, Dawn Eliashiv &amp; Nanthia Suthana. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02119-3\"><strong>Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation<\/strong><\/a>. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41562-025-02119-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Seeber, Matthias Stangl, Mauricio Vallejo Martelo, Uros Topalovic, Sonja Hiller, Casey H. Halpern, Jean-Philippe Langevin, Vikram R. Rao, Itzhak Fried, Dawn Eliashiv &amp; Nanthia Suthana. Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41562-025-02119-3 Abstract &#8220;The ability to form episodic memories and later imagine them is integral to the human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,1412,346],"tags":[349,1316,148,1425,367,1258,1424,821,1426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178"}],"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=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}