Exploring the brain's representation of three-dimensional space
Previous research has shown that in two‐dimensional environments, ‘place cells’ and ‘grid cells’ in the hippocampal formation comprise two units of O’Keefe and Nadel’s (1978) ‘cognitive map’, coding for the rat’s present location and for metric distance information, respectively. Since the world is...
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University College London (University of London)
2012
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.625764 |