Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Where Am I?

Without a map or an intimate knowledge of the area, human beings are not very good at finding their way around; our senses alone are not enough to enable us to navigate or explore very efficiently. Other animals, however, perform extraordinary feats of navigation, relying on a battery of sensory skills—salmon searching for their home stream, pigeons flying to their roost, migrating birds, and foraging fish. This program looks at the mechanisms that regulate stability in space, the ability to detect the direction of gravity and angular rotation in any plane, the body clock, and proprioception—the detection of the position of joints, the lengths of muscles, and the relationships of all parts of the body. (60 minutes)

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Item#: BVL2569

Part of the Series : Common Sense


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