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Why people get lost : the psychology and neuroscience of spatial cognition
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dudchenko, Paul A., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognition.
- Mental Processes.
- Psychological Phenomena.
- Psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cognition.
- Mental Processes.
- Psychological Phenomena.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p., [4] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.)
- Other Title:
- Why people get lost
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At some point in our lives, most of us have been lost. How does this happen? What are the limits of our ability to find our way? Do we have an innate sense of direction? 'How People Get Lost' is an exploration of the psychology and neuroscience of how we find our way.
- Contents:
- On being lost
- A history of "maze" psychology
- Contemporary studies of spatial cognition
- Human navigation
- Spatial cognition in children
- The hippocampus as a cognitive map
- Place cells and brain imaging
- The neural basis for a sense of direction : head direction neurons
- Alzheimer's disease, the parietal lobe, and topographical disorientation
- Why we get lost.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191594199 (ebook) :
- 0191594199 (ebook) :
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