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"Why are we so often disoriented when we come up from the subway? Do we really walk in circles when we lose our bearings in the wilderness? How - and why - do we get lost at all?" "In this book, Erik Jonsson, a Swedish-born engineer who has spent a lifetime exploring navigation over every terrain, from the crowded cities of Europe to the emptiness of the desert, gives readers extraordinary new insights into the human way-finding system." "Written for the nonscientist, Inner Navigation explains the array of physical and psychological cues the brain uses to situate us in space and build its "cognitive maps" - the subconscious maps it employs to organize landmarks. Humans, Jonsson explains, also possess an intuitive direction frame - an internal compass - that keeps these maps oriented (when it functions properly) and a dead-reckoning system that constantly updates our location on the map as we move through the world. Even the most cynical city-dweller will be amazed to learn how much of this innate sense we use every day as we travel across town or around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
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Psychologische aspecten, Mapas cognoscitivos (Psicología), Cognitive maps (Psychology), Percepción geográfica, Ruimtelijk inzicht, Geographical perception, Aspectos psicológicos, Navigatie, Psychological aspects, Navegación, Conducta espacial, Cognitieve kaarten, Navigation, Spatial behaviorShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Inner navigation: why we get lost and how we find our way
2002, Scribner
in English
0743222067 9780743222068
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-337) and index.
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