spatial map

collocation in English

meaningsofspatialandmap

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spatial
adjective
uk
/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/us
/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/
relating to the position, area, and size ...
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map
noun[C]
uk
/mæp/us
/mæp/
a drawing of the earth's surface, or part of that surface, showing the shape and position of different countries, political borders, natural features such as rivers and mountains, and artificial features such as roads ...
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(Definition ofspatialandmapfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This vector contains the desired position of the end-effector inspatialmapcoordinates.
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Finally, thespatialmapis not mental, but the scene in the real world forms a local map that contains the indexed objects.
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In addition to this information we keep aspatialmap, a set of spatial pointers, which tell us that the dog is at one direction, and the man at another.
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Hurford suggests that the objects of attention should be understood as indexed, arbitrary objects identified by their location in a mental,spatialmap.
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Thespatialmapof the glomeruli layer may be used for perception of odor in the olfactory cortex.
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Thisspatialmapis divided into zones and clusters, which represent similar glomeruli and therefore similar odors.
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Cells on the posterior aspect of the occipital lobes' gray matter are arranged as aspatialmapof the retinal field.
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We shall argue (see below) that spatial maps in the brain are trained during development by neural activity due primarily to movement in the world.
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Penfield confirmed the presence of aspatialmapof the contralateral body of the brain.
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This activity sets up spatial maps that are then referenced for the visual perception of both moving and stationary stimuli in the adult.
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In sum, the crux of deciding whether a percept or a mental image is spatial in nature is whether it can and does access spatial maps.
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Smoothing, or spatial filtering, is the idea of averaging the intensities of nearby voxels to produce a smoothspatialmapof intensity change across the brain or region of interest.
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The finding indicates that the medial temporal lobe is not needed for the retrieval of spatial maps learned prior to injury.
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Processing occurs at each level of the main olfactory bulb, beginning with the spatial maps that categorize odors in the glomeruli layer.
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