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Dark and Magical Places

Dark and Magical Places

By Christopher Kemp

The Neuroscience of Navigation. W. W. Norton and Company, 2022.

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A brief summary of Dark and Magical Places

A vibrant and often amusing investigation into navigation, and how are brains are constructed—some better than others—not only to get us from one place to another but to build an entire model of the physical world inside the mind.

Key insights in Dark and Magical Places

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What do you get from this book? A knowledgeable guide through the maze of the neuroscience of navigation
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Navigation is a far more complex mental process than it seems, requiring us to draw on all forms of memory
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Building a cognitive map of our environment is crucial to effective navigation, but not everyone is capable of it
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Neuroscience is revealing the role each component of the brain plays in successfully navigating and building cognitive maps
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Head-direction cells act as an internal compass, helping us position ourselves on our mental maps
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Underpinning navigation is our ability to generate symbols, which gave us a crucial evolutionary edge over Neanderthals
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Path integration allows our bodies to keep track of where we’ve travelled, enabling us to retrace our steps
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Brain damage can deprive us of our navigation skills, but some are born without them at all
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Our brains are affected by our experiences, as demonstrated by the damage GPS does to our navigation skills
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Summary of the key insights
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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

Who should read Dark and Magical Places

Amateur neurologists • philosophers • lovers of an unusual tale • those looking to understand the brain • the perpetually lost

About the author of Dark and Magical Places

Christopher Kemp is a molecular biologist at the University of Michigan, specializing in degenerative disease in the brain, particularly Parkinson’s. His other books include Floating Gold (2012) and The Lost Species (2017).

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