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What counts as the evidence for three-dimensional and four-dimensional spatial representations?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Ranxiao Frances Wang  and
Whitney N. Street
Ranxiao Frances Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820. francesw@cyrus.psych.illinois.edu http://publish.illinois.edu/franceswang/ street1@illinois.edu
Whitney N. Street
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820. francesw@cyrus.psych.illinois.edu http://publish.illinois.edu/franceswang/ street1@illinois.edu
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Abstract

The dimension of spatial representations can be assessed by above-chance performance in novel shortcut or spatial reasoning tasks independent of accuracy levels, systematic biases, mosaic/segmentation across space, separate coding of individual dimensions, and reference frames. Based on this criterion, humans and some other animals exhibited sufficient evidence for the existence of three-dimensional and/or four-dimensional spatial representations.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 567 - 568
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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