Does crossing one’s path result in greater uncertainty in one’s internal sense of direction (path integration)? The present study addressed this issue using immersive virtual reality involving matc...

Do the places we live offer a source of meaning? In five studies, we investigate whether the places people are attached to afford higher meaning. Spec…

There is substantial variation across people in navigation ability, which is shaped by multiple factors. In this Review, Yavuz and Spiers organize these factors into lifetime, lifestyle and personal a...

The study of scene perception is crucial to the understanding of how one interprets and interacts with their environment, and how the environment impa…

UTA researcher finds no clear link between brain structure and navigation ability in young adults

Despite over two decades of research on the neural mechanisms underlying human visual scene, or place, processing, it remains unknown what exactly a “…

It has been established that aged rats are worse at learning the spatial version of the Morris watermaze task compared to their younger counterparts. It remains unclear, however, whether this poorer ...

Researchers hope the proposed institute will expedite scientific discoveries and AI innovation.

Learning new navigation or memory skills engages flexible brain network dynamics without altering gray matter, white matter, or hippocampal structure.