Virtual reality was used to sequentially present objects within a town square and to test
recognition of object locations from the same viewpoint as presentation, or from a shifted
viewpoint. A developmental amnesic case with focal bilateral hippocampal pathology
showed a massive additional impairment when tested from the shifted viewpoint compared
with a mild, list length‐dependent, impairment when tested from the same viewpoint. While
the same‐view condition could be solved by visual pattern matching, the shifted‐view …

Finding one's way around an environment and remembering the events that occur within it
are crucial cognitive abilities that have been linked to the hippocampus and medial temporal
lobes. Our review of neuropsychological, behavioral, and neuroimaging studies of human
hippocampal involvement in spatial memory concentrates on three important concepts in
this field: spatial frameworks, dimensionality, and orientation and self-motion. We also
compare variation in hippocampal structure and function across and within species. We …