Traveling Neuron: How Our Brain Solves Spatial Tasks

Navigation skills are deeply rooted in our biology. The ability to find a way over long distances in prehistoric times gave Homo sapiens an evolutionary advantage, allowing you to explore the most remote corners of the planet. The ability to navigate is closely related to other important cognitive functions, such as abstract thinking, imagination and memory. Michael Bond summarizes the results of the latest research in the field of psychology, neurobiology, ethology and anthropology and gives examples from the experience of people whose profession or occupation are somehow related to navigation-masters of sports orientation, pilots, search and rescue volunteers, cartographers, urban planners and other . The result was a fascinating immersion in the topic of orientation of a person in a natural and artificial environment with a special accent on the consideration of the neurobiological foundations of this most important skill