Place navigation in mammals: A configuration-based model

Animal Cognition

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-63

  Benhamou, Simon ^a  

^a Ctr for Res in Cogn Neuroscience   (France)

Author keywords

Geometric information; Neural substrates; Phasor representation; Place navigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006222523     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050007     Document Type: Article

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