Publications by authors named "Shona Fitzpatrick"
Article Synopsis
- The ability to navigate new environments relies on quickly learning and accessing mental representations of locations, which are formed in specific brain areas like the retrosplenial cortex and parahippocampal gyrus.
- Recent research using magnetoencephalogram (MEG) recordings showed that greater theta and alpha/beta brain wave activity occurs when participants view videos integrating two scenes belonging to the same location, compared to unrelated scenes.
- These oscillations were particularly strong in the medial parietal cortex and medial temporal lobe, suggesting that specific brain wave patterns support the formation of location-based representations during navigation tasks.
