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The Hippocampal and Parietal Foundations of Spatial Cognition (Hardcover)
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The Hippocampal and Parietal Foundations of Spatial Cognition (Hardcover)
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As we move around in our environment, and interact with it, many of
the most important problems we face involve the processing of
spatial information. We have to be able to navigate by perceiving
and remembering the locations and orientations of the objects
around us relative to our self; we have to sense and act upon these
objects; and we need to move through space to position ourselves in
favourable locations or to avoid dangerous ones. While this appears
so simple that we don't even think about it, the difficulty of
solving these problems has been shown in the repeated failure of
artificial systems to perform these kinds of tasks efficiently. In
contrast, humans and other animals routinely overcome these
problems every single day. This book examines some of the neural
substrates and mechanisms that support these remarkable abilities.
The hippocampus and the parietal cortex have been implicated in
various core spatial behaviours, such as the ability to localise an
object and navigate to it. Damage to these areas in humans and
animals leads to impairment of these spatial functions. This
collection of papers, written by internationally recognized experts
in the field, reviews the evidence that each area is involved in
spatial cognition, examines the mechanisms underlying the
generation of spatial behaviours, and considers the relative roles
of the parietal and hippocampal areas, including how each interacts
with the other. The papers integrate a wide range of theoretical
and experimental approaches, and touch on broader issues relating
to memory and imagery. As such, this book represents the state of
the art of current research into the neural basis of spatial
cognition. It should be of interest to anyone - researchers or
graduate students - working in the areas of cognitive neuroscience,
neuroanatomy, neuropsychology, and cognition generally.
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