Our study investigated brain waves in freely moving humans who learned to navigate, remember and then imagine walking specific routes. Brain waves in the medial temporal lobe during real-world and imagined navigation are similarly structured, which underpins the parallels between physical and mental wayfinding.
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Fig. 1: Brain recordings during real-world and imagined navigation reveal similarities in theta waves.
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