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Primate Vestibular Cortices and Spatial Orientation

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Orientation in the extrapersonal space is a multimodal achievement; in man and most primates the visual system predominates. The extrapersonal space is perceived by the “outer senses” and can be subdivided into four different compartments: The grasping space, the near-distant action space,the far-distant action space, and the visual background (Grüsser, 1983). The perceived coordinates of the extrapersonal space are closely related to the coordinates of the ego-space (spatiotopically organized egocentric coordinate system). For spatial orientation man uses an additional pictorial concept of the extrapersonal space, which is stored in memory and operates with allocentric coordinates: We are able to perceive and describe spatial relations relative to each other without referring to our actual egocentrically organized extrapersonal space.

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Grüsser, O.J., Guldin, W.O. (1995). Primate Vestibular Cortices and Spatial Orientation. In: Mergner, T., Hlavačka, F. (eds) Multisensory Control of Posture. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1931-7_7

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