Guide neuron. How our brain solves spatial problems. Bond M.

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 is somehow related to navigation-masters of sports orientation, pilots, search and rescue Volunteers, cartographers, urban planners and others. 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 considering the neurobiological foundations of this most important skill.

“The fact that we are not lost so often can be considered a kind of miracle. The world around us is infinitely complicated, and yet most of us can navigate it. We are able to walk along unfamiliar streets, adhering to a certain direction, to reduce the way, laying new routes, and after many years to remember places where we were only once. These are amazing achievements. One of the tasks of this book is to explain how we do it: how our brain makes cognitive cards that help to navigate even in unfamiliar places. But more importantly, the book talks about our relations with the world, how understanding of the world affects psychology and behavior. ” (Michael Bond)