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Abstract
Certain neurons have visual and auditory receptive fields anchored to body parts. We show that these neurons reflect the value of interacting with objects near the body, not just their spatial locations. A collection of these neurons furnishes animals with an egocentric map: a predictive model of the near-body environment.
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