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The complex interplay between three-dimensional egocentric and allocentric spatial representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

David M. Kaplan
David M. Kaplan*
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110. kaplan@eye-hand.wustl.edu
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Abstract

Jeffery et al. characterize the egocentric/allocentric distinction as discrete. But paradoxically, much of the neural and behavioral evidence they adduce undermines a discrete distinction. More strikingly, their positive proposal – the bicoded map hypothesis – reflects a more complex interplay between egocentric and allocentric coding than they acknowledge. Properly interpreted, their proposal about three-dimensional spatial representation contributes to recent work on embodied cognition.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 553 - 554
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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