Geometry, features and orientation in vertebrate animals: a pictorial review

Ken Cheng; Nora S. Newcombe

Geometry, features and orientation in vertebrate animals: a pictorial review

Ken Cheng, Nora S. Newcombe

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With much pictorial support, we review research on how vertebrate animals orient in enclosed rectilinear spaces. The phenomenon of the rotational error is introduced, along with the distinction between geometric and featural information. The circumstances under which a number of species use geometric and geatural information for relocating a target place are reviewed. Other sections examine cue competition (actually lack thereof) between geometric information and landmark cues, artificial intelligence, and the neurophysiological bases udnerlying the coding of geometric information. We then examine two theoretical issues 1) how geometry is encoded and used, 2) the modularity of mind.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Animal spatial cognition
Subtitle of host publication	comparative, neural and computational approaches
Editors	Michael F. Brown, Robert G Cook
Place of Publication	Medford, MA
Publisher	Michael F. Brown and Robert G. Cook in cooperation with Comparative Cognition Press
Pages	1-26
Number of pages	26
Publication status	Published - 2006

Keywords

vertebrates
geometrics
coding

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Cheng, K., & Newcombe, N. S. (2006). Geometry, features and orientation in vertebrate animals: a pictorial review. In M. F. Brown, & R. G. Cook (Eds.), Animal spatial cognition: comparative, neural and computational approaches (pp. 1-26). Michael F. Brown and Robert G. Cook in cooperation with Comparative Cognition Press. http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/asc/Cheng/Default.htm

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Cheng, K & Newcombe, NS 2006, Geometry, features and orientation in vertebrate animals: a pictorial review. in MF Brown & RG Cook (eds), Animal spatial cognition: comparative, neural and computational approaches. Michael F. Brown and Robert G. Cook in cooperation with Comparative Cognition Press, Medford, MA, pp. 1-26. <http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/asc/Cheng/Default.htm>

Geometry, features and orientation in vertebrate animals: a pictorial review. / Cheng, Ken; Newcombe, Nora S.
Animal spatial cognition: comparative, neural and computational approaches. ed. / Michael F. Brown; Robert G Cook. Medford, MA: Michael F. Brown and Robert G. Cook in cooperation with Comparative Cognition Press, 2006. p. 1-26.

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