Development of space perception in relation to the maturation of the motor system in infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
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SUBMITTER: Sclafani V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5100747 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
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Development of space perception in relation to the maturation of the motor system in infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
Sclafani Valentina V Simpson Elizabeth A EA Suomi Stephen J SJ Ferrari Pier Francesco PF
Neuropsychologia 20141205
To act on the environment, organisms must perceive object locations in relation to their body. Several neuroscientific studies provide evidence of neural circuits that selectively represent space within reach (i.e., peripersonal) and space outside of reach (i.e., extrapersonal). However, the developmental emergence of these space representations remains largely unexplored. We investigated the development of space coding in infant macaques and found that they exhibit different motor strategies an ...[more]
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