Finding one's way around an environment and remembering the events that occur within it
are crucial cognitive abilities that have been linked to the hippocampus and medial temporal …

Recent research on navigation has been particularly notable for the increased
understanding of the factors affecting human navigation and the neural networks supporting …

Here we report a study designed to examine the influence of spatial exploration mode on
people's wayfinding performance during a building fire emergency. Using immersive virtual …

The hippocampus and parahippocampal cortices exhibit theta oscillations during spatial
navigation in animals and humans, and in the former are thought to mediate spatial memory …

Background: Virtual reality (VR) is an evolving technology that has been applied in various
aspects of medicine, including the treatment of phobia disorders, pain distraction …

Subjects in a darkroom saw an array of five phosphorescent objects on a circular table and,
after a short delay, indicated which object had been moved. During the delay the subject, the …

Virtual environments (VEs) have undergone a transition in the past few years that has taken
from the realm of expensive toy into that of functional technology. This emerging …

A review of selected works on spatial memory in animals and humans is presented, and
some ideas about the encoding of geometry and its role in evolution are presented, based …

Vestibular signals play an essential role in oculomotor and static and dynamic posturomotor
functions. Increasing attention is now focusing on their impact on spatial and non-spatial …

Most of the studies on gender differences in spatial abilities have focused on traditional
paper and pencil cognitive tests, while these differences have been less investigated in …