Are all spatial reference frames egocentric? Reinterpreting evidence for allocentric, object-centered, or world-centered reference frames

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Filimon, Flavia ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Cognitive map; Egocentric; Object centered; Parietal sensorimotor transformations; Perception and action; Place cells; Spatial reference frames

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROIMAGING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84954047886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00648     Document Type: Article

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