Cognitive Versus Sensorimotor Encoding of Spatial Information

Abstract

The study of spatially oriented behaviour has been dominated by the trenchant opposition between behaviourist and cognitivist theories. Despite the fact that this traditional controversy seems to have lost some of its force in recent years, it nevertheless tends to resurface in a more or less explicit form during a meeting of this kind. The persistence of such a debate clearly deserves consideration and stresses the need for both clarifying concepts and domains and attempting to translate them in neural terms.