یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
Thinking about Space -- The Ways of Light -- Sensing Our Own Shape -- Brain Maps and Polka Dots -- Sherlock Ears -- Moving with Maps and Meters -- Your Sunglasses Are in the Milky Way -- Going Places -- Space and Memory -- Thinking about Thinking
بدون عنوان
0
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"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." -- Publisher's description
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Cognition
موضوع مستند نشده
Space perception
موضوع مستند نشده
Spatial behavior
موضوع مستند نشده
Visual Perception
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
612
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8/23342
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
QP491
نشانه اثر
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G76
2014
سایر رده بندی ها
شماره رده
WW
105
نشانه اثر
G894
2014
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