Sentence examples for maps of space from inspiring English sources

The owl coordinates what it sees and hears in a part of its brain called the optic tectum, where it merges auditory and visual maps of space.

One reason for this might be that the participants associated the episodic memory with the existing semantic maps of space to support their navigation in the given novel environment [36].

This reflects the manner in which maps of space across different modalities are aligned in the SC.

Given the ample evidence for interactions between these senses, with vision tending to play the dominant role in resolving spatial conflicts between them and in aligning neural maps of space in the midbrain during development (King, 2009), it might well be expected that early loss of vision would result in impaired spatial hearing.

Vision must be crucial to helping the brain create mental maps of spaces, he says.

Note that the arrows denote assignments and also not continuous maps of spaces.

"Place cells" provide an internal map of space; "head-direction cells" signal the direction we are facing, similar to an internal compass; and "grid cells" chart out space in a manner akin to latitude and longitude.

This is important for those attempting to localize mechanisms for the allocation of attention within the brain (since different brain areas differ in their mapping of space).

We report that a rudimentary map of space is already present when 2½-week-old rat pups explore an open environment outside the nest for the first time.

Each drive captures thousands of images as well as a full point cloud (a 3D map of space defined by dots that represent surfaces) and GPS data.

They are a fundamental component of the wider circuit of spatially responsive hippocampal formation neurons that make up the neural cognitive map of space [4].