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While the disappearance of Neanderthals remains a mystery, paleoanthropologists have an increasing understanding of what allowed their younger cousins, Homo sapiens, to conquer the planet. 
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We have an easier time finding our way around our home town when we're facing north, a new study finds. That suggests our spatial perception has been trained by maps.
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The body specificity hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009) posits that the way in which people interact with the world affects their mental representation of information. For instance, right- versus left-handedness affects the mental representation of affective valence, with right-handers categorically associating good with rightward areas and bad with leftward areas, and left-handers doing the opposite.
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Everybody knows how to zoom in and out on an online map, to get the level of resolution you need to get you where you want to go.
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November 18, 2014 3:06 PM
Spatial cognition - how the human brain processes the concept of space |
