"No representation of allocentric space has been found in the brain" Critically evaluate this statement. The question of how animals and humans navigate is a fundamental research problem upon which there has been much experimentation and debate, and so it is necessary to refine the title to a specific point. As Tolman (1948) established that rats can solve spatial problems too complex for a purely stimulus-response system to solve, and that therefore some kind of neural map is necessary for navigation, this essay will basically address the question of whether the brain forms an allocentric (which is independent of the organism) or an egocentric (based on the organism's own perception of the surroundings) view of the environment. For the purpose of simplicity this essay will concern itself with only the brain of a rat. This essa....

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