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Monkeys in space: Primate neural data suggest volumetric representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Sidney R. Lehky ,
Anne B. Sereno  and
Margaret E. Sereno
Sidney R. Lehky
Affiliation:
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037. sidney@salk.edu http://www.snl.salk.edu/~sidney/
Anne B. Sereno
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030. anne.b.sereno@uth.tmc.edu http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/sereno/sereno/index.htm
Margaret E. Sereno
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 94703. msereno@uoregon.edu http://psychweb.uoregon.edu/~serenolab/
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Abstract

The target article does not consider neural data on primate spatial representations, which we suggest provide grounds for believing that navigational space may be three-dimensional rather than quasi–two-dimensional. Furthermore, we question the authors' interpretation of rat neurophysiological data as indicating that the vertical dimension may be encoded in a neural structure separate from the two horizontal dimensions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 555 - 556
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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