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The planar mosaic fails to account for spatially directed action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Roberta L. Klatzky  and
Nicholas A. Giudice
Roberta L. Klatzky
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. klatzky@cmu.edu http://www.psy.cmu.edu/people/klatzky.html
Nicholas A. Giudice
Affiliation:
Spatial Informatics Program, School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5711. nicholas.giudice@maine.edu http://spatial.umaine.edu/faculty/giudice/
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Abstract

Humans' spatial representations enable navigation and reaching to targets above the ground plane, even without direct perceptual support. Such abilities are inconsistent with an impoverished representation of the third dimension. Features that differentiate humans from most terrestrial animals, including raised eye height and arms dedicated to manipulation rather than locomotion, have led to robust metric representations of volumetric space.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 554 - 555
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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