Urban explorers

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Date
1996
Summary
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.
Contributors
Percival, Dan; Klein, Leanne; Lawson, Denis
Publishers
Wall to Wall Television; Channel Four (Great Britain); Learning Channel (Firm); ITEL (Firm); Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Genre
Educational television programs
Subjects
Science, Technology; Science, Technology; City dwellers -- Psychology; City and town life -- Psychological aspects; Learning, Psychology of; Feedback (Psychology)
Locations
North America; United States; New Jersey
Collection
Films@UM
Unit
Distinctive Media Collections
Language
English
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Terms of Use
Access is restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
Physical Description
25 minutes; color
Notes

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Access condition: campus-only.

Creation/Production Credits

Series producer, Leanne Klein ; director, Daniel Percival ; film editor, Anna Ksiezopolska ; photographer, Brian McDairmant ; music, Paul Englishby ; series consultant, Stanton Newman ; research, Patricia Dunnett. Narrator, Denis Lawson.
Other Identifiers
Filename: lms-089693; Fedora 2 PID: umd:10698; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/3173; Catalog Key: alephsys004131208; OCLC: ocn606925388

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