| Description |
1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Summary |
"How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? Come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but it's also critical to our species's evolutionary success. In From Here to There Michael Bond tells stories of the lost and found-Polynesian sailors, orienteering champions, early aviators-and surveys the science of human navigation. Navigation skills are deeply embedded in our biology. The ability to find our way over large distances in prehistoric times gave Homo sapiens an advantage, allowing us to explore the farthest regions of the planet. Wayfinding also shaped vital cognitive functions outside the realm of navigation, including abstract thinking, imagination, and memory. Bond brings a reporter's curiosity and nose for narrative to the latest research from psychologists, neuroscientists, animal behaviorists, and anthropologists. He also turns to the people who design and expertly maneuver the world we navigate: search-and-rescue volunteers, cartographers, ordnance mappers, urban planners, and more. The result is a global expedition that furthers our understanding of human orienting in the natural and built environments"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
The first wayfinders -- Right to roam -- Maps in the mind -- Thinking space -- From A to B and back again -- You go your way, I'll go mine -- Natural navigators -- The psychology of lost -- City sense -- Am I here? -- Epilogue: The end of the road |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Geographical perception.
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Orientation (Psychology)
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Space perception.
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Electronic books.
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space perception. |
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e-books. |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Neuroscience. |
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Geographical perception |
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Orientation (Psychology) |
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Space perception |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bond, Michael Shaw. From here to there. First Harvard University Press edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020 9780674244573 (DLC) 2019050667 (OCoLC)1122799810 |
| ISBN |
9780674247390 pdf |
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0674247396 pdf |
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9780674247376 epub |
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067424737X epub |
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9780674247383 mobi |
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0674247388 mobi |
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9780674244573 hardcover |
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0674244575 hardcover |
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