The hippocampus and navigation in rats, robots and humans

Concerns research into the neural mechanisms of navigation by rats and by humans, by using functional imaging of subjects navigating in a virtual reality town. In this task regional cerebral blood flow in the right hippocampus and right inferior parietal cortex correlates with the accuracy of navigation, and blood flow in the right hippocampus is elevated during navigation compared to following a trail of arrows. The aim is to develop neural net models, which could be used in navigation systems of mobile robots