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It has been very controversial whether humans can do egocentric localization, that is, keep their head motionless and say where the spatial source of an odor is. It seems that we have this ability and that, with practice, you could become really good at it.


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NOAM CHOMSKY If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the k...
NOAM CHOMSKY Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a soci...
NOAM CHOMSKY Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's ...
NOAM CHOMSKY By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Ko...
NOAM CHOMSKY The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. I...
NOAM CHOMSKY The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.
NOAM CHOMSKY The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
NOAM CHOMSKY Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that rel...
NOAM CHOMSKY A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the d...
NOAM CHOMSKY If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you...
NOAM CHOMSKY There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKY In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. ...
NOAM CHOMSKY The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflatio...
NOAM CHOMSKY For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
NOAM CHOMSKY The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ...
NOAM CHOMSKY The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.
NOAM CHOMSKY In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
NOAM CHOMSKY It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, w...
NOAM CHOMSKY In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and kil...
NOAM CHOMSKY The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial e...
NOAM CHOMSKY From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies ...
NOAM CHOMSKY There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which say...
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