Why People Get Lost

• A exciting and accessible look at how we navigate the world around us, and why it can all go wrong - when we get lost
• Based on cutting edge work from the brain sciences exploring the neural bases of navigation
• Written to be accessible to a broad academic audience

Readership: Psychologist and neuroscientists from undergraduate level upwards; popular science audience

Paul Dudchenko, Psychology Department, University of Stirling, UK

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