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  • Evolutionary Psychology

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  • The medial temporal lobe is crucial for both navigation and declarative memory.
  • A theory proposes episodic memory evolved from egocentric navigation (path integration), and semantic memory from allocentric navigation (map-based).

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  • To investigate the behavioral link between path integration and episodic memory.
  • To test the specificity of this association by including semantic memory tasks.
  • To explore the evolutionary continuity between navigation and memory systems.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed a proprioceptive Triangle Completion Task for path integration.
  • Episodic memory was assessed using a picture recognition task.
  • Semantic memory was evaluated using a verbal task, with controls for attention and working memory.

Main Results:

  • A significant positive correlation was found between path integration and episodic memory performance.
  • This correlation was not observed for semantic memory.
  • The association between egocentric navigation and episodic memory remained significant even with alternative tasks and controls.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the hypothesis of phylogenetic continuity between egocentric navigation and episodic memory.
  • Egocentric navigation abilities reliably predicted episodic memory performance.
  • This suggests a foundational role for navigation in the evolution of episodic memory.