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An edition of Inner navigation (2002)

Inner navigation

why we get lost and how we find our way

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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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Scribner
Language
English
Pages
347

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Table of Contents

Starting out. Strange happenings.
Cognitive maps. Designing a workable spatial system
An introduction to cognitive maps
The mentally invisible stop sign
Who turned the Madeleine around?
Finding cars in parking lots
A backwoodsman goes to town
Distance estimates in cognitive maps
Pictures from an expedition
The life of trails
The role of landmarks in cognitive maps
Crossing a field
When the dead reckoning system slips.
Digging up old stories and analyzing them. Adari way-finding in the Sahara
The cognitive sun compass
The cognitive wind compass
Returning directly to the starting point
Singing in the fog
A report from a salty place [the Runn of Cutch]
Try to go straight, but don't try too hard
Strategies for walking in a straight line
An old story from a cool place [Bear Islands, north of Siberia]
Aboriginal and underwater way-finding.
Walking in circles when lost. The Skogsnuva fairy tale [from Sweden]
Going in a circle on the prairie
Going astray in the Canadian and Swedish forests
How come we walk in circles?
Reversals of orientation. Forde's letter to the editor of Nature
Strange morning awakenings
When trains take off in the wrong direction
Indoor misorientation
Analyzing misorientations
[Joseph] Peterson in a streetcar in Chicago
Professor Peterson's misery in Minneapolis
Tales of a cosmopolitan lady [Franziska Baumgarten]
The topsy-turvy globe-trotter [A. Kirschmann]
Causes of misorientation
The San Francisco effect
Crossing a ridge without getting to the other side
Deterioration in our spatial system in old age
Spatial memory slips causing reversals
The role of gestalt in misorientations
Do humans have a magnetic sense?
Summing up and looking ahead.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-337) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
153.7/52
Library of Congress
BF469 .J66 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
347 p. :
Number of pages
347

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24960749M
Internet Archive
innernavigationw00jons
ISBN 10
0743222067
ISBN 13
9780743222068
LCCN
2001057693
OCLC/WorldCat
48579029

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