They advance an embodied, mechanistic account of human navigation, opening new avenues for investigating brain dynamics in naturalistic, movement-rich settings using non-invasive neural recordings.

These results provide compelling evidence for a self-motion-gated, body-centered reference frame that supports efficient navigation, and bridge the gap between static neuroimaging findings in humans and rodent research on RSC geometry codes.

Want to know more? I’m excited to announce that you can now find all the details in our paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience! 🥳 : www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

What did we found ? A dual role of theta oscillations in the Retrosplenial Complex, flexibly integrating multimodal signals, 1) supporting the recalibration of spatial representations to external cues and 2) encoding self-motion information during naturalistic human navigation.

With @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social we used high-density mobile EEG with virtual reality in the incredible "black room" . Participants navigated freely and were presented with a landmark that allowed them to correct deviations in their path integration.

These findings demonstrate a dual role of theta oscillations in the RSC, flexibly integrating multimodal signals, 1) supporting both the recalibration of spatial representations to external cues and 2) the encoding of self-motion information during naturalistic human navigation.