The neural basis of individual differences in directional sense

• Main Authors: Burte, Heather, Turner, Benjamin O., Miller, Michael B., Hegarty, Mary
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Spatial Cognition; Navigation; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88756; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46975
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Individuals differ greatly in their ability to learn and navigate through environments. One potential source of this variation is “directional sense” or the ability to identify, maintain, and compare allocentric headings. Allocentric headings are facing directions that are fixed to the external envi...