The Hippocampal and Parietal Foundations of Spatial Cognition

by John O'Keefe, N.G. Burgess, Kathryn J Jeffery

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 ourself; wehave 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198524536
• ISBN13: 9780198524533
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 490 Pages