Research Links

Mental Representations

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-representation/
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's in-depth definition of mental representation.

http://psych.colorado.edu/~tcurran/psyc2145/lectures/02152001.pdf
A course outline on mental representations. Includes fun exercises.

http://www.gis.net/~tbirch/mi2b.htm
Eidetic images.

http://www.gis.net/~tbirch/x2.htm
A sample of an eidetic memory test.

http://www.slc.edu/~ebj/minds/student_pages/sally-jane/characteristics.html
Eidetic imagery.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro00/web2/Arnaudo.html
More on eidetic imagery with good links.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/colby
MIT's page on spatial perception.

Body Space

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/twopt.html
Basic page on sense of touch with a fun, two-point discrimination exercise.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/klatzky
MIT's entry on haptic sense (touch).

http://anatomy.uams.edu/HTMLpages/anatomyhtml/atlas_html/n1a3p11.html
A diagram of the sensory homunculus with an actual coronal section of the somatosensory cortex.

http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0331004.htm
An article on a gene responsible for the mapping of the sensory cortex.

http://nanonline.org/NANdistanCE/nanneuro/modules/proprio/proprio.html
Information on proprioception, kinesthesia, and motor reflexes. Includes great diagrams.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun98/touch.html
An APA Montior article about one man's loss of proprioception.

Egocentric Space

http://ahsmail.uwaterloo.ca/kin356/ataxia/ataxia.htm
Optic ataxia.

http://www.univ.trieste.it/~nirfisio/vis/ppbactiv.html
Gaze and real-position cells.

Allocentric Space

http://ahsmail.uwaterloo.ca/kin356/ventral/function.htm
Relation of the ventral visual stream to allocentric space.

http://www.neuroexam.com/9.html
A brief definition on apraxia.

http://www-psychology.concordia.ca/department/349/w5/week5#1
Dorsal (where) vs. ventral (what).

http://www.slc.edu/~ebj/SM_98/lab_manual/brain/visual_area.html
Dorsal and ventral visual pathways.

http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/graves/315/CA.gif
Constructional apraxia and hemispheric efforts.

http://www.psych.uleth.ca/Course/coursepages/W3T4.jpeg
Left and right hemisphere damage drawing abilities.

Hippocampus and Spatial Processing

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/sharp
MIT's entry on animal cognitive maps.

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/bionb420.07/mmangiaracina/neuroanatomy.html
Role of hippocampus in food-storing birds.

http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~msnyder/Academic/psych403/week10/w10oh.html
More on food-storing birds and the hippocampus.

http://soma.npa.uiuc.edu/courses/physl490b/models/spatial_learning/spatial_learning.html
The hippocampus in navigating (neuroethology).

http://www-lnh.unil.ch/IPWeb/_FS9899.html
Neuroethology of memory.

http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/3932/latest.html
Squirrel spatial memory and hippocampus size.

Neglect Syndrome

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/pouget
MIT's entry on visual neglect.

http://www.members.aol.com/_ht_a/mazdakh/index.html
Hemispatial neglect syndrome.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/posner
MIT's abstract on attention by Michael Posner and Diego Fernandez-Duque.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/glimcher
MIT's entry on visual attention.

http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/people/corbetta.html
Dr. Maurizio Corbetta's home page at the Washington University in St. Louis School of medicine. Corbetta conducted a PET study of normal subjects on parietal lobe and attention.

Mental Imagery

http://www.illc.uva.nl/~seop/archives/fall1998/entries/mental-imagery/
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's definition of mental imagery.

http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~mfarah/
Martha Farah's home page. Farah conducted electrophysioloigcal studies of imagery and perception.

http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~bond/cs286/kosslyn.html
Dr. Stephen Kosslyn's psychophysical model of imagery and vision.

http://www.med.harvard.edu/publications/On_The_Brain/Volume4/Number1/W95Eye.html
Kosslyn's web-published article on mental imagery.

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~kwn/
The home page of Dr. Kosslyn's laboratory.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/kosslyn
MIT's entry on imagery as compiled by Kosslyn.

Frontal Lobe and Spatial Processing

http://www.neuroskills.com/index.html?main=tbi/bfrontal.shtml
The frontal lobes.

http://www.braincampus.com/npsych/frontal.html
The frontal lobes and executive function disorder.

http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/faculty/petrides.html
Dr. Petrides' home page. Petrides coined the term "conditional associative learning."

Visual Spatial Disorders

http://www.braincampus.com/npsych/visual.html
Visual spatial disorders.

http://www.sbu.ac.uk/psycho/Teaching/Neuro-L6.html
More visual spatial disorders.

Parietal Lobes

http://www.brainplace.com/bp/brainsystem/parietal.asp
A good review of parietal lobe functioning.

http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/kate.jeffery/C567/Lecture12_Parietal/Parietal.html
Space and the parietal cortex.

http://www.neuroskills.com/index.html?main=tbi/bparieta.shtml
Parietal lobes.

http://www.science.wayne.edu/~dwhitman/parietal.htm
The parietal lobes and functions.

http://melissafschulz.com/Fun/page20.html
Posterior parietal areas and the visual pathways.

Other Sites of Interest

http://www.marine-mammal-cognition.de/English/Visuo.html
The lateralization of a dolphin's visual-spatial processing.

http://www.csuchico.edu/~pmccaff/syllabi/SPPA336/336unit13.html
Right hemisphere functions.