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Which animal model for understanding human navigation in a three-dimensional world?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Guy A. Orban
Guy A. Orban*
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Department of Neuroscience, Division of Neurophysiology, Parma University, 43100 Parma, Italy. guy.orban@med.kuleuven.be
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Abstract

Single-cell studies of monkey posterior parietal cortex (PPC) have revealed the extensive neuronal representations of three-dimensional subject motion and three-dimensional layout of the environment. I propose that navigational planning integrates this PPC information, including gravity signals, with horizontal-plane based information provided by the hippocampal formation, modified in primates by expansion of the ventral stream.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 558 - 559
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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