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Discussion: Looking for a past article on a orienteering experiment

in: Orienteering; General

Mar 1, 2010 3:32 PM # 
simon:
I am trying to find a good article found online a few months ago, which dealt with the recent theory (by one guy) about how orienteering works in our brain. The premise of the article was about a woman who claims to have absolutely no sense of orienteering, to the point she was unnerved by the forthcoming move of her job as it took her many months (years?) to memorize the path from house to office. Then the guy explains how we have two kinds of orienteering process in our brain, both used, except in a few pathological cases like this woman which could only use one (then she was trained to be more efficient with this one). But there was no such thing as "complete lack of orienteering skill". There was also a brief mention about on online experiment which everybody could take to help him in his research. I think he had just arrived at one university in Montreal but I am not sure.

Anyway, I have been browsing Google and a couple of websites (including attackpoint) with many keywords, but didn't find anything yet. I think I got the initial link in a discussion or log comment on attackpoint. Does this ring a bell to anybody?
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Mar 1, 2010 3:46 PM # 
bubo:
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.11-hea...
Mar 1, 2010 3:51 PM # 
j-man:
Google is great, but when you really need to know, you got to go to bubo. :)
Mar 1, 2010 4:50 PM # 
bubo:
Well, I just happened to have read the same article and have had it printed lying on my desk for some time...

13:27 is a pretty good time even for a Google search - especially if you don´t know what you´re looking for ;)
Mar 1, 2010 5:07 PM # 
simon:
Wow impressive bubo! Thank you very much.
Mar 1, 2010 5:10 PM # 
urthbuoy:
Not necessarily an answer in this case, but using a .pdf search engine is often a better way to find articles and technical documents.

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