Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man Volume II Neurophysiology and Developmental Aspects

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ellen, P. (Editor), Thinus-Blanc, C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
Series:NATO Science Series D:, Behavioural and Social Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Section I. Basic and clinical findings.
  • Behaviorally dependent neuronal gating in the hippocampus
  • Temporally constant and temporally changing spatial memory : single unit correlates in the hippocampus
  • The vestibular navigation hypothesis : a progress report
  • Coordinate representations underlying arm movements in three-dimensional space
  • Cognitive versus sensorimotor encoding of spatial information
  • Spatial cognition in man; The evidence from cerebral lesions
  • Mapping operations, spatial memory and cholinergic mechanisms
  • Effects of dentate granule cell depletion in rats : failure to recall more than one event at the same place
  • The septal lesioned rat forever here
  • Basal ganglia, instrumental and spatial learning
  • Reaching in the extrapersonal space or how to catch a moving object
  • Superior colliculus, hippocampus and spatial behaviour
  • Changes in neuronal activity of motor cortical areas associated with the coding of spatial parameters of the movement : preliminary results
  • Cerebral lesions and internal spatial representations
  • The encoding and recall of spatial location after right hippocampal lesions in man
  • A case of dissociation in topographical disorders : the selective breakdown of vector-map representation
  • Section II. Development of spatial knowledge.
  • Early development of spatial orientation in humans
  • Children’s understanding of maps
  • Space, organism and objects, a Piagetian approach
  • Human spatial reference systems
  • Detour ability in infants and toddlers
  • Developmental and experiential aspects of children’s spatial problem solving
  • The relation between locomotor experience and spatial knowledge in infancy
  • Cognitive influences on the acquisition of route knowledge in children and adults
  • Cognitive and motor representations ofspace and their use in human visually-guided locomotion
  • Conclusion
  • A sense of where you are : functions of the spatial module
  • Authors Index