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Where Am I?

WHERE AM I? is a new documentary about the skills we use to find our way around. Whether you are an Inuit hunter, a foraging insect, or just someone out for a stroll, your brain is performing one of its most fundamental services -- it's navigating. Why are some of us good at finding our way, while others are not?

WHERE AM I? explores the strategies we use to figure out where we are - and where we are going. Are some strategies simply better than others? It also looks at the navigation skills we share with animals, and some animal skills we wish we had. Are you simply born a terrible navigator? If you aren't good at finding your way, what are the solutions? The program examines how GPS has affected wayfinding, and why some researchers think it's so bad for our brains that it may even lead to early senility.

Several experts weigh in on the topic including neuroscientists Giuseppe Iaria, Sue Becker, Hugo Spiers, and Veronique Bohbot; insect biologist, Tom Collett; psychologist Nora Newcombe, head of the Spatial Learning and Intelligence Centre at Temple University; geographer and behaviorist Dan Montello; Ken Jennings, 'Jeopardy' champion and author of 'Maphead'; roboticist and biologist Michael Mangan; and psychologist Colin Ellard.