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Flavia Filimon1

  • 1Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Germany ; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Berlin, Germany.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
|December 24, 2015
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allocentriccognitive mapegocentricobject-centeredparietal sensorimotor transformationsperception and actionplace cellsspatial reference frames

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