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Moving forward by looking away

In one model of the brain, a central processing region is sandwiched between separate input and output areas. But studies of humans, and now monkeys, hint that this model may be too simplistic.

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Snyder, L. Moving forward by looking away. Nature 408, 921–923 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35050192

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