Why people get lost : the psychology and neuroscience of spatial cognition
Dudchenko, Paul AAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2010.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Cognition
Cognition
Mental Processes
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Psychiatry and Psychology
Psychology
Social Sciences