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Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are
Jennifer M. Groh
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Description for Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 218 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMR; MJN; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524.
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.
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Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
523g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674863217
SKU
V9780674863217
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About Jennifer M. Groh
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.
Reviews for Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are
Groh deftly elucidates the mental computations that allow understanding of location and boundaries, interweaving well-judged snippets of history. The mechanisms, such as the brain’s updates on eye movements, are fascinating—as is Groh’s revelation that neurons can ‘do double duty’ in tasks such as spatial navigation and memory.
Barbara Kiser
Nature
Jennifer Groh’s wonderful book offers a much ... Read more
Barbara Kiser
Nature
Jennifer Groh’s wonderful book offers a much ... Read more