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why we get lost and how we find our way
By Erik Jonsson
"Inner navigation" was published by Scribner in 2002 - New York, it has 347 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Inner navigation” Metadata:
- Title: Inner navigation
- Author: Erik Jonsson
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 347
- Publisher: Scribner
- Publish Date: 2002
- Publish Location: New York
“Inner navigation” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ 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 behavior
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 347 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL24960749M - OL16062138W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 48579029
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2001057693
- ISBN-13: 9780743222068
- ISBN-10: 0743222067
- All ISBNs: 0743222067 - 9780743222068
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"Inner navigation" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Starting out. Strange happenings.
- 2- Cognitive maps. Designing a workable spatial system
- 3- An introduction to cognitive maps
- 4- The mentally invisible stop sign
- 5- Who turned the Madeleine around?
- 6- Finding cars in parking lots
- 7- A backwoodsman goes to town
- 8- Distance estimates in cognitive maps
- 9- Pictures from an expedition
- 10- The life of trails
- 11- The role of landmarks in cognitive maps
- 12- Crossing a field
- 13- When the dead reckoning system slips.
- 14- Digging up old stories and analyzing them. Adari way-finding in the Sahara
- 15- The cognitive sun compass
- 16- The cognitive wind compass
- 17- Returning directly to the starting point
- 18- Singing in the fog
- 19- A report from a salty place [the Runn of Cutch]
- 20- Try to go straight, but don't try too hard
- 21- Strategies for walking in a straight line
- 22- An old story from a cool place [Bear Islands, north of Siberia]
- 23- Aboriginal and underwater way-finding.
- 24- Walking in circles when lost. The Skogsnuva fairy tale [from Sweden]
- 25- Going in a circle on the prairie
- 26- Going astray in the Canadian and Swedish forests
- 27- How come we walk in circles?
- 28- Reversals of orientation. Forde's letter to the editor of Nature
- 29- Strange morning awakenings
- 30- When trains take off in the wrong direction
- 31- Indoor misorientation
- 32- Analyzing misorientations
- 33- [Joseph] Peterson in a streetcar in Chicago
- 34- Professor Peterson's misery in Minneapolis
- 35- Tales of a cosmopolitan lady [Franziska Baumgarten]
- 36- The topsy-turvy globe-trotter [A. Kirschmann]
- 37- Causes of misorientation
- 38- The San Francisco effect
- 39- Crossing a ridge without getting to the other side
- 40- Deterioration in our spatial system in old age
- 41- Spatial memory slips causing reversals
- 42- The role of gestalt in misorientations
- 43- Do humans have a magnetic sense?
- 44- Summing up and looking ahead.
"Inner navigation" Description:
The Open Library:
"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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