Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.