• Media type: Book
  • Title: Why people get lost : the psychology and neuroscience of spatial cognition
  • Contains: 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.
  • Contributor: Dudchenko, Paul A. [Author]
  • imprint: Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010
  • Issue: 1. publ.
  • Extent: 299 S., [2] Bl; Ill., graph. Darst; 24 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0199210861; 9780199210862
  • RVK notation: CP 2500 : Wahrnehmung speziell (z.B. Sehen, Hören)
    CZ 1300 : Allgemeines
  • Keywords: Orientierung > Navigation > Neurologie > Psychologie
    Orientierung > Raumwahrnehmung > Neuropsychologie
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: 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

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