Which Direction Now? Just Ask the North-Facing Map in Your Head
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 07:00
in Psychology & Sociology
(Medical Xpress) -- Youre driving from work to pick up your kids at school. The drive is familiar; youve done it almost every day for years. But how do you know in which direction the school is from your home? Landmarks? The sun? Animal instinct? Now, a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, yields an alternative answer that surprised even its authors, Julia Frankenstein, Betty J. Mohler, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, and Tobias Meilinger, who collaborated at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany.