Sentences with phrase «own mental map»

Scientists think this is because, as we memorize more details about a particular stretch of road, we have more landmarks to squeeze into our mental maps.

REALITY is so infinitely vast that we can only take in and re-present «mental maps» or perceptions of what we «believe» to out there.

He draws into his «mental map» a wide range of cultural commentators from G.K. Chesterton to Salman Rushdie.

On behalf of his co-editor Steven Casey, as well as of each contributing author, Jonathan Wright makes the case that, «The great crises of the twentieth century sometimes allowed leaders even with very different ideologies to find something in common, a shared orientation in their mental maps.»

His mental map never became fixed.

Did the leaders of non-state organisations (I think of figures like Lech Wałęsa, co-founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland), or the mental maps of broader publics play as important a role, or were they less critical to the course of international politics?

A recent workshop in Stockholm brought together work as varied as West European attitudes to Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to 1989, Israeli students» knowledge of the Palestinian areas of the country, the conflicting mental maps of 20th century Lebanon, mental maps of Europe based on quantitative evidence from surveys of European and extra-European students, and comparative work on mental maps in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions.

In brief, Ostpolitik had substantial support but Brandt's mental map had the unusual extra dimension — of exile — which made him uniquely qualified to put it into practice.

The idea of exploring their «mental maps» as a way into understanding the international history of a particular era (earlier volumes explored the era of the two world wars and the era of the early Cold War) is to uncover not only what made these leaders unusual but also their sense of the constraints, both domestic and international, with which they were faced, and also the opportunities that might arise.

So there is a case for allowing «mental maps» to continue to be interpreted freely as portraits in prose.

His mental map was shaped by exploiting the opportunities of a loosely bipolar world order, and showed no trace of self - criticism.

To what extent were the mental maps of others important in the development of the later Cold War?

One definitional question is whether a mental map requires a visual representation.

Broadly, as one might have expected, the origins of the mental maps are mostly associated with your first set of criteria, the way they were applied, with the second.

Once again, the birds reoriented themselves to the northwest — suggesting that the magnetic field alone — regardless of smells or other cues, is enough to alter the birds» mental map.

Neglect creates mental maps used by children, and their adult selves, to survive.

It's the first planet that I have a mental map of in my head because we've actually measured, to some degree, the physical map.

Cartographers measure and plot distances over land and water, but when we make a mental map, we rely on categories to help us keep things straight.

Theirmemories, their mental maps of the places they know, theirunderstanding of Labradors, doorknobs, and the moguls on a ski slopeare all tactile.

Thurner suggests that we may characterize people into different groups in order to keep connections straight in our heads, but that «no one knows how this mental map is organized.»

During normal development, a baby learns to control its limbs by creating a mental map of the movable parts of its body — a motor homunculus of sorts.

Kidnapped, drugged, and left abandoned in a field, bees can still find their way home using mental maps of their surroundings, according to a new study that could pose a major challenge to current thinking about human memory and cognition.

As you navigate a landscape, certain neurons in the brain fire at multiple locations, marking out a hexagonal grid on a mental map.

That means the insects weren't relying solely on the sun to navigate and instead must be using mental maps, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bees don't have the brain structure, called the hippocampus, thought to store the spatial memories underlying mental maps in humans.

«People walk around with a mental map that's different for every one of us.

New research suggests the great apes keep a geometric mental map of their home range, moving from point to point in nearly straight lines.

It has been known for some time that the hippocampus maintains a mental map of space — in fact, the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded precisely for this research.

After analysing all this data, he and Normand found good evidence that the animals chose their routes using a mental map built around geometric coordinates, as opposed to a navigation style based on landmarks for well - travelled routes.

Next, the researchers plan to see whether the roundworm can — and to what extent — maintain a mental map of its food search and explore the energy costs and benefits of information searching.

Astronauts are some of the few humans to describe this experience: when they move in space to «stand» on a ceiling, they report a moment of disorientation before their mental map flips so they feel right side up again.

«There seems to be a component of a person's mental representation of the spatial environment, for example, the ability to picture the streets like a mental map,» Watts said.

Worse, the watch's interface requires learning a mental map of the tiny watch screens laid out like an inverted T. Recent notifications appear as a vertical scrolling list, but «glances» (display screens for stocks, weather, battery charge, steps taken and so on) are arranged horizontally.

If you say that an animal finds its way from A to B because it has a «mental map», you have not exactly added to the sum of human knowledge.

«It could be that the dogs somehow calibrate their compass or read their «mental map» during the walks,» Begall said.

But how is such a mental map created in the brain?

The four - step structure of narrative — beginning (Once upon a time...), problem, resolution, and ending -LRB-... and they all lived happily ever after)-- forms a mental map onto which new information can be laid.

Understand how to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context.

Back at home, he converts his mental maps into large paintings which use solid, brightly coloured shapes and high - impact graphics.

Though it has topped the news for much of the past year, Afghanistan has not secured a place on most young American's mental maps.

How to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context

Preservice teachers found it beneficial for their future students to achieve a variety of learning objectives in physical geography lessons by «[providing] student with detailed information that if it were to be given on a sheet of paper, could potentially be confusing» and visualizing information effectively and, therefore, «making it easier to analyze data than if a student were to have to rely on their mental maps» (Figures 4c and 4d).

Each of us has our own mental map, a theory of action that directs our behavior in any situation (Argyris & Schön, 1974).

«Next to this screen is the screen named — Hello, this is Watson, and this is my mental map superimposed on the mental map of the author and all each and every individual adjusting the existence of this Watson and of this and that chainlet of each and every interconnection and of the analysed text of mirroring and mirage, and this Watson suggests to name this process collective mental engineering superimposed on the individual view of inlets and outlets, may it help us to understand each other, one another, such a marvelous cosmic flower for you for us.»

Helps blind dogs regain confidence and assists in developing a mental map of their environment

Dying Light is continuously throwing off the players mental mapping of distance.

First - person games are so much about looking anyway — the player encounters views and collates them into mental maps of three - dimensional space.

It was too disorienting and hard to make a mental map of their surroundings.

Janice Caswell: When I finished art school I started cataloging my memories of place by drawing mental maps of places I'd lived or... Continue reading →

Pipes overhead accompany one through the exhibition, titled «Just Knocked Out,» competing with one's own mental map of the space.