In humans, fMRI studies implicate the<unk>  in a wide range of cognitive functions including episodic memory, navigation, imagining future events and processing scenes more generally. Rodent studies suggest the region is important for using surrounding visual cues to carry out these tasks.<unk>  is particularly responsive to permanent, non-moving environmental landmarks and is also implicated in using them to make spatial judgements. It has also been suggested that<unk>  may translate between egocentric (self-centred) and allocentric (world-centred) spatial information, based upon its anatomical location between the hippocampus (where there are allocentric place cell representations) and the parietal lobe (which integrates egocentric sensory information). Competitors in the World Memory Championships are able to perform outstanding feats of memory and show increased fMRI activation in their<unk>  than normal controls when doing so. This is thought to be due to their use of a spatial learning strategy or mnemonic device known as the method of loci. The region also displays slow-wave theta rhythmicity and when people retrieve autobiographical memories, there is theta band interaction between the<unk>  and the medial temporal lobe.
Retrosplenial cortex
Piriform cortex
Postrhinal cortex
Barrel cortex
Fusiform body area
Postcentral sulcus
Posterior parietal cortex
Fields of Forel