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Why people get lost : the psychology and neuroscience of spatial cognition /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dudchenko, Paul A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Cognition.
Table of 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.