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CELL REPORTS
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108658
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- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, NTNU
- Norwegian National Advisory Unit for fMRI
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The study suggests that the amygdala and the ventral visual stream also play a role in spatial cognition, in addition to the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. The research findings reveal unique brain activation patterns in different neural populations as allocentric accuracy increases during memory recall tasks.
The hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex are considered the main brain structures for allocentric representation of the external environment. Here, we show that the amygdala and the ventral visual stream are involved in allocentric representation. Thirty-one young men explored 35 virtual environments during high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and were subsequently tested on recall of the allocentric pattern of the objects in each environment-in other words, the positions of the objects relative to each other and to the outer perimeter. We find increasingly unique brain activation patterns associated with increasing allocentric accuracy in distinct neural populations in the perirhinal cortex, parahippocampal cortex, fusiform cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, and entorhinal cortex. In contrast to the traditional view of a hierarchical MTL network with the hippocampus at the top, we demonstrate, using recently developed graph analyses, a hierarchical allocentric MTL network without a main connector hub.
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