What neuroscience can tell us about our sense of place and sense of direction.

Описание: The 'architecture' of cognition. How is spatial information represented in the brain?
Kate Jeffery is Professor of Neuroscience, Faculty of Brain Sciences. UCL.
0:00 - Introduction. What information do we need when navigating space. City legibility.
1:48 - How do people form representations of places. Spaces that are difficult to navigate.
3:38 - Neuroanatomy. Primary and secondary areas of the brain. The cortex.
5:18 - The subcortex and hippocampus.
6:29 - The parietal lobe. The 'egocentric' map. Parietal damage.
9:40 - Habit based large scale movement. The subcortical striatum.
11:45 - The role of the hippocampus.
12:58 - Neuroimaging.
14:15 - Virtual reality.
16:28 - Identifying and 'recording' single neurons.
21:00 - 'Patterns' of nerve impulses.
21:42 - 'Place cells' and 'mapping'.
23:22 - In what sense are place cells about space.
24:35 - Mapping.
25:22 - The search for a form of isomorphism.
28:00 - The hippocampus, place cells, memory and 'mapping'.
28:30 - London taxi drivers.
29:43 - Testing on humans. Do humans have 'place' cells.
31:20 - Spatial imagination and coherence.
33:07 - 'Head direction cells'.
37:15 - The entorhinal cortex, neuronal activity and spatial location. Distance and direction. The 'grid' cells.
45:00 - The place cells, the head direction cells, the grid cells and border cells.
46:00 - The work of Kevin Lynch. Edges, landmarks.
51:15 - Incoherent or less coherent spaces.
53:00 - Rotational symmetry.
53:45 - Mirror symmetry.
54:50 - Distant landmarks.
57:00 - Can the brain make a 3D map of space.
59:30 - More advanced 'mapping' of the brain.