Cognitive Navigation Course

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 09:30 am to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Austwick Yorkshire Dales | Horton In Ribblesdale, EN

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This 1-day Cognitive Navigation course in the Yorkshire Dales is ideal for hill-walkers who want to move away from being ‘passive’ navigators using phones and apps to become ‘cognitive’ navigators who are more in tune with their surroundings.
The ‘cognitive map’ hypothesis is that our brains build a representation of our spatial environment to support memory and guide future action through place, distance, direction and decision making. These are the building blocks of human thought, which are integral and essential for navigation.
Cognitive maps are formed through journeying, exploration and discovery. From the earliest age to the end of our lives, we develop cognitive maps in our brains. This is a progression as we develop from crawling around our homes to navigating across the mountains. Evidence shows there to be knowledge gaps with GPS use, so that we may be able to get to a location using GPS but we don’t know how we got to that location. A deeper question is therefore: what is the purpose of navigation?
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Where is it happening?

Austwick Yorkshire Dales, Lancaster, Lancashire, Horton In Ribblesdale, United Kingdom

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