结合患者病变和大数据方法以揭示海马体对空间记忆和导航的作用。
Combining patient-lesion and big data approaches to reveal hippocampal contributions to spatial memory and navigation.
作者信息
Pishdadian Sara, Coutrot Antoine, Webber Lauren, Hornberger Michael, Spiers Hugo, Rosenbaum R Shayna
机构信息
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto M3J 1P3, Canada.
Vision: Science to Application (VISTA) Program, York University, Toronto M3J 1P3, Canada.
出版信息
iScience. 2024 May 14;27(6):109977. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109977. eCollection 2024 Jun 21.
Classic findings of impaired allocentric spatial learning and memory following hippocampal lesions indicate that the hippocampus supports cognitive maps of one's environment. Many studies assess navigation in vista space virtual reality environments and compare hippocampal-lesioned individuals' performance to that of small control samples, potentially stifling detection of preserved and impaired performance. Using the mobile app we examined navigation in diverse complex environments in two individuals with hippocampal lesions relative to demographically matched controls ( = 17,734). We found surprisingly accurate navigation in several environments, particularly those containing a constrained set of sub-goals, paths, and/or turns. Areas of impaired performance may reflect a role for the hippocampus in anterograde memory and more flexible and/or precise spatial representations, even when the need for allocentric processing is minimal. The results emphasize the value of combining single cases with big data and illustrate navigation performance profiles in individuals with hippocampal compromise.
海马体损伤后出现的以自我为中心的空间学习和记忆受损的典型表现表明,海马体支持对个人环境的认知地图。许多研究评估了在全景空间虚拟现实环境中的导航,并将海马体损伤个体的表现与小样本对照的表现进行比较,这可能会抑制对保存和受损表现的检测。使用移动应用程序,我们研究了两名海马体损伤个体在各种复杂环境中的导航情况,并与人口统计学匹配的对照组(n = 17,734)进行了比较。我们发现在几个环境中导航惊人地准确,特别是那些包含一组受限的子目标、路径和/或转弯的环境。表现受损的区域可能反映了海马体在顺行记忆以及更灵活和/或精确的空间表征中的作用,即使对以自我为中心的处理需求最小。结果强调了将单病例与大数据相结合的价值,并展示了海马体受损个体的导航表现概况。