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Title Making space : how the brain knows where things are / Jennifer M. Groh.
Publisher Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Copyright ©2014
Description 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm


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 DP-Non-Fiction  612.8233 Groh Nearby on shelf  32244202268419 05-03-16  AVAILABLE
 LN-Adult  612.8 GRO Nearby on shelf  3 1801 00551 0767 11-14-19  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-224) and index.
Summary 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.
Subject Space perception.
Spatial behavior.
Cognition.
ISBN 9780674863217
0674863216