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Clinical Neurology
Roberto Gammeri, Jacques Leonard, Michel Toupet, Charlotte Hautefort, Christian van Nechel, Stephane Besnard, Marie-Laure Machado, Estelle Nakul, Marion Montava, Jean-Pierre Lavieille, Christophe Lopez
Summary: Humans mainly rely on egocentric and allocentric spatial strategies during navigation. This study explores how vestibular disorders can change the use of these strategies. The results show that the odds of selecting and using a specific strategy are significantly reduced in patients with unilateral and bilateral vestibular loss. Age is found to be associated with lower chance of adopting a navigation strategy.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2022)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Martina Laczo, Lukas Martinkovic, Ondrej Lerch, Jan M. Wiener, Jana Kalinova, Veronika Matuskova, Zuzana Nedelska, Martin Vyhnalek, Jakub Hort, Jan Laczo
Summary: This study assessed spatial navigation performance in AD aMCI and non-AD aMCI patients, and examined the associations between navigation performance and MRI measures of brain atrophy as well as CSF biomarkers related to AD pathology.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Jinhui Li, Ruibin Zhang, Siqi Liu, Qunjun Liang, Senning Zheng, Xianyou He, Ruiwang Huang
Summary: Humans use different spatial reference frames for navigation with specific brain regions being activated. Environmental space shows stronger activation in certain brain regions compared to vista space, and allocentric reference frame also displays stronger activation in some areas.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lei Zheng, Jan-Gabriel Dobroschke, Stefan Pollmann
Summary: The study shows that contextual cueing can be guided by egocentric and allocentric reference frames, as long as they contain valid information about the search goal.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Psychology, Mathematical
Alessia Bonavita, Alice Teghil, Maria Chiara Pesola, Cecilia Guariglia, Fabrizia D'Antonio, Antonella Di Vita, Maddalena Boccia
Summary: The study found that the conditions in which tasks are performed affect the acquisition of route knowledge, likely due to the lack of proprioceptive and vestibular information in laboratory-based settings. The laboratory-based tests provided in the study offer a standard battery of tests that can overcome replicability issues encountered in ecological navigation tests.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2022)
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Behavioral Sciences
Qian Chen, Zhao Qing, Jiaxuan Jin, Yi Sun, Wenqian Chen, Jiaming Lu, Pin Lv, Jiani Liu, Xin Li, Junxia Wang, Wen Zhang, Sichu Wu, Xian Yan, Zuzana Nedelska, Jakub Hort, Xin Zhang, Bing Zhang
Summary: Individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) show deficits in spatial navigation (SN) and reduced brain network connectivity. Logistic regression based on SN and functional connectivity (FC) measures can effectively differentiate SCD individuals from controls.
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Environmental Studies
Veronica Muffato, Anna Simonetto, Marilina Pellegrini, Carla Tortora, Chiara Meneghetti
Summary: This study investigated the knowledge of spatial navigation skills in young, middle-aged, and older people, and found that middle-aged and older adults performed less well than young adults in tasks involving pointing to landmarks and drawing maps. The study also identified visuospatial working memory and sense of direction as the most influential individual factors.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Ecology
Christine E. Beardsworth, Mark A. Whiteside, Philippa R. Laker, Ran Nathan, Yotam Orchan, Sivan Toledo, Jayden O. van Horik, Joah R. Madden
Summary: Cognitive biases for encoding spatial information differ between species or populations based on habitats, with individual's orientation strategy potentially influencing early habitat selection, but advantages remain unclear.
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Behavioral Sciences
Stefano Terruzzi, Damiano Crivelli, Elena Campana, Alberto Pisani, Leonor J. Romero Lauro, Nadia Bolognini, Giuseppe Vallar
Summary: This study investigated the aftereffects of prism adaptation, finding that in egocentric tasks, the aftereffects lasted up to 30 minutes. The findings suggest that the spatial reference systems modulated by prism adaptation primarily operate in spatial egocentric reference frames, with a comparatively minor and direction-specific role of allocentric frames.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Svend Heini W. Johnsen, Hana Mala Rytter
Summary: This article discusses the importance of designing methods to dissociate spatial strategies in animal research on spatial learning and memory, as well as the potential influence of multiple spatial reference frames in commonly used spatial paradigms that often go unaccounted for. The role of the hippocampus in egocentric navigation forms is reviewed, and possible methodological confounders are discussed.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2021)
Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Jessica Placido, Creso Alberto Bem de Almeida, Jose Vinicius Ferreira, Felipe de Oliveira Silva, Renato Sobral Monteiro-Junior, Gro Gujord Tangen, Jerson Laks, Andrea Camaz Deslandes
Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis compared the spatial navigation performance of older adults with mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and other dementias, and found a strong correlation between spatial navigation impairment and cognitive decline. The study suggests that spatial navigation ability can serve as a behavioral biomarker for early diagnosis of dementia.
EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Yumi Shikauchi, Makoto Miyakoshi, Scott Makeig, John R. Iversen
Summary: The study found that using map learning models led to more accurate estimation of step sizes and turning angles, with differences in the extent of advantage between egocentric and allocentric navigators. This suggests a Bayesian evidence of human map learning on navigation behavior and its implications for different types of navigators.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Andrew S. McAvan, Yu Karen Du, Alexis Oyao, Stephanie Doner, Matthew D. Grilli, Arne Ekstrom
Summary: Older adults typically perform worse on spatial navigation tasks, but maintain the ability to utilize various strategies when navigating. While older adults have less precise spatial memories, they can still generalize their memory for location of a hidden target given a new point of view.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Renato Orti, Yann Coello, Tina Iachini, Gennaro Ruggiero
Summary: The ability to switch between egocentric and allocentric frames of reference is important in everyday spatial activities. This study investigated how the orientation of environmental axes (aligned or misaligned) influenced the switching process. Results showed that spatial judgments were worse in the misaligned condition and in the allocentric-based judgments. Specifically, switching from allocentric to egocentric condition was more difficult in the misaligned environment.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Psychiatry
Pamela Banta Lavenex, Pierre Lavenex
Summary: Individuals with Down syndrome exhibit low-resolution egocentric and allocentric spatial learning and memory abilities, while individuals with Williams syndrome show impaired low-resolution allocentric spatial learning and memory abilities in comparison.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)