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Locating animals with respect to landmarks in space-time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2019

Hunter Gentry  and
Cameron Buckner Open the ORCID record for Cameron Buckner [Opens in a new window]
Hunter Gentry
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Department of Philosophy, University of Houston, Houston, TX77204. hrgentry@email.wm.educjbuckner@uh.eduhttps://philpeople.org/profiles/hunter-r-gentryhttp://cameronbuckner.net/professional/
Cameron Buckner
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Houston, Houston, TX77204. hrgentry@email.wm.educjbuckner@uh.eduhttps://philpeople.org/profiles/hunter-r-gentryhttp://cameronbuckner.net/professional/
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Abstract

Landmarks play a crucial role in bootstrapping both spatial and temporal cognition. Given the similarity in the underlying demands of representing spatial and temporal relations, we ask here whether animals can be trained to reason about temporal relations by providing them with temporal landmark cues, proposing a line of future research complementary to those suggested by the authors.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e251
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