Urban explorers. Dealing with the unfamiliar
Description
The modern city is a complex maze of choices and decisions. This program describes the brain's empirical approach to finding sense amid confusion. Subconscious methods of information gathering, including visual scanning to find goods in a supermarket and direction finding while traversing an urban environment, are analyzed. In addition, the natural human ability to learn by trial and error is observed, emphasizing the concept of "natural mapping" and the importance of feedback.
Runtime
25 min
Series
Subjects
- Social change (532)
- Learning, Psychology of (143)
- Brain (487)
- Memory (177)
- Social ecology (250)
- Urbanization (175)
- Population policy (78)
- Rural-urban migration (144)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c1996
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