
Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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How to Convert Aural Signals Into an Eye Centered Frame of Reference
In humans and monkeys, it's exactly the kind of code that seems to emerge from these comparisons across the two ears a so, ah, that's actually a kind of cool finding. Because it suggests a simpler way of converting auditory signals into an eye centered frame of reference than would have been the case if it was a map. So you could imagine left preferring neurons and right preferring neurons, and the ratio of activity in those two pools telling you, well, is it is it straight ahead? Well enough, those two pools are equally active, that's going to say it straight ahead. If the left ones are more active, that’s going to be more off to the left.
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