Why People Get Lost: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Spatial Cognition

Preface Acknowledgements Dedication 1. On being lost 2. A history of "maze" psychology 3. Contemporary studies of spatial cognition 4. Human navigation 5. Spatial cognition in children 6. The hippocampus as a cognitive map 7. Place cells and brain imaging 8. The neural basis for a sense of direction: head direction neurons 9. Alzheimer's disease, the parietal lobe, and topographical disorientation 10. Why we get lost