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Vertical and veridical – 2.5-dimensional visual and vestibular navigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

David M. W. Powers
David M. W. Powers*
Affiliation:
CSEM Centre for Knowledge and Interaction Technology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. David.Powers@flinders.edu.au http://flinders.edu.au/people/David.Powers
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Abstract

Does the psychological and neurological evidence concerning three-dimensional localization and navigation fly in the face of optimality? This commentary brings a computational and robotic engineering perspective to the question of “optimality” and argues that a multicoding manifold model is more efficient in several senses, and is also likely to extend to “volume-travelling” animals, including birds or fish.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 562 - 563
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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