Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are

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Good: A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. ...
Release Year
2014
Book Title
Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are
ISBN
9780674863217
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674863216
ISBN-13
9780674863217
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201558295

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Making Space : How the Brain Knows Where Things Are
Language
English
Subject
Cognitive Science, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Psychology
Author
Jennifer M. Groh
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
7.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2014-014029
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
612.8/23342
Synopsis
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., Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous computational power to figuring out the simplest details about spatial relationships. Going to the grocery store or finding our cell phone requires sleuthing and coordination across different sensory and motor domains. Making Space traces this mental detective work to explain how the brain creates our sense of location. But it goes further, to make the case that spatial processing permeates all our cognitive abilities, and that the brain's systems for thinking about space may be the systems of thought itself. Our senses measure energy in the form of light, sound, and pressure on the skin, and our brains evaluate these measurements to make inferences about objects and boundaries. Jennifer Groh describes how eyes detect electromagnetic radiation, how the brain can locate sounds by measuring differences of less than one one-thousandth of a second in how long they take to reach each ear, and how the ear's balance organs help us monitor body posture and movement. The brain synthesizes all this neural information so that we can navigate three-dimensional space. But the brain's work doesn't end there. Spatial representations do double duty in aiding memory and reasoning. This is why it is harder to remember how to get somewhere if someone else is driving, and why, if we set out to do something and forget what it was, returning to the place we started can jog our memory. In making space the brain uses powers we did not know we have.
LC Classification Number
QP491.G76 2014

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