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Navigation by path integration requires that self-motion cues be used to keep track of the translatory and rotatory components of a journey so that one’s position with respect to a starting location may be updated accurately. We hypothesized that ideothetic information from the optic flow field alone is sufficient for navigation. Sixty-one humans actively explored with a joystick a computer generated virtual environment. Then, after removal of all local and distal visual landmarks, participants estimated their position relative to previously visited locations during either passive linear displacement or angular rotation. Participants were able to estimate their location with respect to targets in a “heads-down” journey during which the only continuous self-motion cue available was the speed of motion of the ground. Estimation errors varied significantly as a function of distance to target, the speed of movement and the number of landmarks available at the beginning of the journey. Estimation errors and the...

Attaining tenure and earning promotions are key milestones in an academic career. The process takes between five and seven years, and decisions are made based on a combination of research, teaching, and service to the academic community. For many female neuroscientists, however, achieving this goal can be a challenge. Although tenure and promotion committees strive to be objective, implicit bias — subtle discrimination based on cultural stereotypes — inadvertently enters into the decision-making process.

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The spread of desires among individuals is widely believed to shape motivational drives in human populations. However, objective evidence for this phenomenon and insights into the underlying brain mechanisms are still lacking. Here we show that participants rated objects as more desirable once perceived as the goals of another agent's action. We then unravel the mechanisms underpinning such goal contagion, using functional neuroimaging. As expected, observing goal-directed actions activated a parietofrontal network known as the mirror neuron system (MNS), whereas subjective desirability ratings were represented in a ventral striatoprefrontal network known as the brain valuation system (BVS). Crucially, the induction of mimetic desires through action observation involved the modulation of BVS activity through MNS activity. Furthermore, MNS–BVS effective connectivity predicted individual susceptibility toward mimetic desires. We therefore suggest that MNS–BVS interaction represents a fundamental mechanism ex...