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spatiotopic

spatiotopic adjective: having a reference to the three-dimensional space of the real world.

Adjective

spatiotopic (not comparable)

  1. Having a reference to the three-dimensional space of the real world
    • Here we investigated whether nociceptive stimuli are mapped into a spatiotopic frame of reference, and more specifically a peripersonal frame of reference, which takes into account the position of the body limbs in external space, as well as the occurrence of external objects presented near the...2015 August 29, “From a Somatotopic to a Spatiotopic Frame of Reference for the Localization of Nociceptive Stimuli”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of spatiotopic

From spatio- + -topic.

Questions about spatiotopic

What does spatiotopic mean?
Spatiotopic means having a reference to the three-dimensional space of the real world.
What part of speech is spatiotopic?
Spatiotopic is an adjective.

Words near spatiotopic in the dictionary

  1. spatiospectral
  2. spatiostructural
  3. spatiotemporal
  4. spatiotemporality
  5. spatiotemporally
  6. spatiotopic
  7. spatiotopically
  8. spatiotopicity
  9. spatiotopographic
  10. spatiotopy
  11. spatious

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