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  2. Topographical disorientation - Wikipedia

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    Topographical disorientation is the inability to orient oneself in one's surroundings, sometimes as a result of focal brain damage. [1] This disability may result from the inability to make use of selective spatial information (e.g., environmental landmarks) or to orient by means of specific cognitive strategies such as the ability to form a mental representation of the environment, also known ...

  3. Spatial disorientation - Wikipedia

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    If the aviator then ends the turn or spin and returns to level flight, the continued motion of the fluid will cause a sensation the aircraft is turning or spinning in the opposite direction, and the pilot may re-enter the original turn or spin inadvertently; the aviator may not recognize the illusion before the aircraft loses too much altitude ...

  4. Sense of direction - Wikipedia

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    The study, made by Walkowiak et. al., [18] showed that asking the participants to self-rate their wayfinding abilities as either very good, good, bad, or very bad (that resemble at least in part sense of direction) there is an overestimation amongst the oldest male participants, and they rated their wayfinding skills to be better than that of ...

  5. Blame your GPS for your bad sense of direction - AOL

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    If you're using GPS navigation, it could be dulling your sense of direction, and not even the wisdom of Yoda can protect you. Citing multiple navigational studies, a correspondent for Nature says ...

  6. Orientation (mental) - Wikipedia

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    Disorientation has a variety of causes, physiological and mental in nature. Physiological disorientation is frequently caused by an underlying or acute condition. Disease or injury that impairs the delivery of essential nutrients such as glucose, oxygen, fluids, or electrolytes can impair homeostasis, and therefore neurological function causing ...

  7. Dyschronometria - Wikipedia

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    Common signs of dyschronometria are often generic to cerebellar ataxia, including a lack of spatial awareness, poor short term memory, and inability to keep track of time. [citation needed] [5] The defining symptoms, while not completely understood, involve time perception. For example, when asked to wait for thirty seconds, or tap every second ...

  8. Spatial anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Spatial anxiety (sometimes also referred to as spatial orientation discomfort [1]) is a sense of anxiety an individual experiences while processing environmental information contained in one's geographical space (in the sense of Montello's classification of space), [2] with the purpose of navigation and orientation through that space (usually unfamiliar, or very little known). [3]

  9. Earth’s core might be reversing its spin. It ‘won’t affect ...

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    Earth’s inner core, a red-hot ball of iron 1,800 miles below our feet, stopped spinning recently, and it may now be reversing directions, according to an analysis of seismic activity.