Making Space - How the Brain Knows Where Things Are

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer M. Groh is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Department of Neurobiology at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. Klappentext Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous power to figuring out simple details about spatial relationships. Jennifer Groh traces this mental detective work to show how the brain creates our sense of location, and makes the case that the brain's systems for thinking about space may be the systems of thought itself. Zusammenfassung Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous power to figuring out simple details about spatial relationships. Jennifer Groh traces this mental detective work to show how the brain creates our sense of location, and makes the case that the brain’s systems for thinking about space may be the systems of thought itself.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer M Groh, Jennifer M. Groh, Groh Jennifer M.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2014
• EAN: 9780674863217
• ISBN: 978-0-674-86321-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, Neurosciences, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitivism, cognitive theory