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Neuropsychology of Spatial Memory

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Contemporary Reviews in Neuropsychology

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In recent years the study of spatial memory has occupied the attention of many cognitive scientists from a wide range of disciplines. For some, the study of spatial memory is an end in its own right. For others, measures of spatial learning and memory provide a convenient index of the development and decline of intellectual functions and their neurobiological correlates throughout the life span. In the present review we attempt to summarize current knowledge of the neural mechanisms underlying spatial behavior, drawing on information from studies of nonhuman species as well as humans. Such an endeavor is beset by all the usual uncertainties regarding comparability of behavioral tests and neuroanatomical homologies. In addition, the comparative neuropsychology of spatial behavior is complicated by the rather different perspectives of space imposed on animals of vastly different size. The view of the world of rats and humans is obviously quite different. In an attempt to minimize confusion resulting from differing motivational conditions we arbitrarily excluded studies in which escape from or avoidance of electric shock served as reinforcement because aversive conditions of this sort have rarely been used in species other than rats.

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Beatty, W.W., Tröster, A.I. (1988). Neuropsychology of Spatial Memory. In: Whitaker, H.A. (eds) Contemporary Reviews in Neuropsychology. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3780-8_3

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