A neuron selective for a viewed location in external space. In the primate recordings motivating the term, eye-position and locomotion measurements distinguished the looked-at part of the environment from the animal’s self-location and head direction.[ref]
Spatial view cells in the primate hippocampus by Edmund T. Rolls and others. Abstract; pp. 1789–1794, active locomotion, eye position and allocentric spatial-view responses
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