Abstract
Moving between two fixed points in an environment may require various sensory informations (see Baker, Bingman, Etienne, Mitchell, Potegal, this issue). Moreover, this behaviour can be accomplished by different strategies, from the simple association learning to the more elaborate place strategies that require a representational system. O’Keefe and Nadel (1978) have proposed that the hippocampus acts as a cognitive mapping system encoding the absolute spatial properties of an environment and the location of the subject in this framework. This brain structure is a supramodal association area connecting the neocortex with somatomotor and visceromotor control systems (Swanson, 1983). In the absence of a functional hippocampus (e.g. following lesions), the theory predicts that the subject will tend to solve any spatial problem by taxon strategies, i.e. simple S-R associations.
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Schenk, F. (1987). Dissociation Between Components of Spatial Memory in the Rat During Ontogeny. In: Ellen, P., Thinus-Blanc, C. (eds) Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man. NATO ASI Series, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3531-0_14
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