Two systems of spatial representation underlying navigation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-188

  Lee, Sang Ah ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Reorientation; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77957667163     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2349-5     Document Type: Review

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