No representation of allocentric space has been found in the brain
Title: No representation of allocentric space has been found in the brain
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No representation of allocentric space has been found in the brain
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1786 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
"No representation of allocentric space has been found in the brain"
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The question of how animals and humans navigate is a fundamental research problem upon which there has been much experimentation and debate, and so it is necessary to refine the title to a specific point. As Tolman (1948) established that rats can solve spatial problems too complex for a purely stimulus-response system to solve, and that therefore some kind of neural
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in rats and men. Psychology Review, 40, 60-70.
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