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  • Oscillations in neuronal activity in the medial temporal lobe of the human brain encode proximity to boundaries such as walls, both when navigating while walking and when watching another person do so.

    • Hugo J. Spiers
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 589, P: 353-354

  • Evidence reveals that humans share remarkably similar patterns of event-specific neural activity during spontaneous spoken recall. Posterior medial cortex appears to play a key role in transforming experience into memory.

    • Eva Zita Patai
    • Hugo J Spiers
    News & Views
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 20, P: 8-9

  • Retrosplenial cortex neurons provide a signal akin to a compass readout. Evidence in humans now demonstrates that these neurons anchor their representations locally, locking to the geometry of a room rather than to the city beyond.

    • Martin J Chadwick
    • Hugo J Spiers
    News & Views
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 17, P: 1436-1437

  • The hippocampus is known to support navigation, but how it processes possible paths to aid navigation is unknown. Here Javadiet al. show that entering streets drives hippocampal activity corresponding to the number of future paths, and that prefrontal activity corresponds to path-planning demands.

    • Amir-Homayoun Javadi
    • Beatrix Emo
    • Hugo J. Spiers
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-11

  • How does the brain learn the relevance of landmarks at key decision points? An imaging study now shows that the parahippocampal gyrus responds to the navigational relevance of landmarks, even those that were not remembered.

    • Hugo J Spiers
    • Eleanor A Maguire
    News & Views
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 7, P: 572-574

  • To study cognition, researchers have traditionally used laboratory-based experiments, but games offer a valuable alternative: they are intuitive and enjoyable. In this Perspective, Schulz et al. discuss the advantages and drawbacks of games and give recommendations for researchers.

    • Kelsey Allen
    • Franziska Brändle
    • Eric Schulz
    Reviews
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 8, P: 1035-1043

  • Cognitive maps are internal representations of large-scale navigable spaces. While they have been long studied in rodents, recent work in humans reveals new insights into how cognitive maps are encoded, anchored to environmental landmarks and used to plan routes. Similar neural mechanisms might be used to form ‘maps’ of nonphysical spaces.

    • Russell A Epstein
    • Eva Zita Patai
    • Hugo J Spiers
    Reviews
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 20, P: 1504-1513

  • Schemas are structured bodies of prior knowledge that reflect common patterns of information from related experiences. In this Review, Farzanfar et al. discuss evidence for spatial schemas, how they form and how they differ from cognitive maps.

    • Delaram Farzanfar
    • Hugo J. Spiers
    • R. Shayna Rosenbaum
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Neuroscience
    Volume: 24, P: 63-79

  • Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open debate. Here we discuss the case and argue that the theory is indeed unscientific because its core claims are untestable even in principle.

    • Derek H. Arnold
    • Mark G. Baxter
    • Joel S. Snyder
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 28, P: 689-693