Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation
Research on human navigation by psychologists and neuroscientists has come mainly from a limited range of environments and participants inhabiting western countries. By contrast, numerous anthropological accounts illustrate the diverse ways in which cultures adapt to their surrounding environment to...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:10179224 2023-12-24T10:25:25+01:00 Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation Fernandez-Velasco, Pablo Spiers, Hugo J 2023-10-03 text https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179224/1/1-s2.0-S1364661323002516-main.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179224/ eng eng https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179224/1/1-s2.0-S1364661323002516-main.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179224/ open Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2023) (In press). anthropology ethnography navigational culture real-world cognitive science wayfinding Article 2023 ftucl 2023-11-27T13:07:31Z Research on human navigation by psychologists and neuroscientists has come mainly from a limited range of environments and participants inhabiting western countries. By contrast, numerous anthropological accounts illustrate the diverse ways in which cultures adapt to their surrounding environment to navigate. Here, we provide an overview of these studies and relate them to cognitive science research. The diversity of cues in traditional navigation is much higher and multimodal compared with navigation experiments in the laboratory. It typically involves an integrated system of methods, drawing on a detailed understanding of the environmental cues, specific tools, and forms part of a broader cultural system. We highlight recent methodological developments for measuring navigation skill and modelling behaviour that will aid future research into how culture and environment shape human navigation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra University College London: UCL Discovery |
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Research on human navigation by psychologists and neuroscientists has come mainly from a limited range of environments and participants inhabiting western countries. By contrast, numerous anthropological accounts illustrate the diverse ways in which cultures adapt to their surrounding environment to navigate. Here, we provide an overview of these studies and relate them to cognitive science research. The diversity of cues in traditional navigation is much higher and multimodal compared with navigation experiments in the laboratory. It typically involves an integrated system of methods, drawing on a detailed understanding of the environmental cues, specific tools, and forms part of a broader cultural system. We highlight recent methodological developments for measuring navigation skill and modelling behaviour that will aid future research into how culture and environment shape human navigation. |
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Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation |
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Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation |
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Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation |
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