{"id":8139,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hodology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:27","slug":"hodology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hodology\/","title":{"rendered":"Hodology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Used in many different disciplines (e.g., computer science, geography, town planning), but not found in the <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Oxford english dictionary<\/span>, it is derived from the Greek word <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">hodos<\/span> meaning a &#8216;way&#8217;, and in general can be defined as the science of studying pathways between structures. &nbsp;In the present instance, it refers to <a href=\"http:\/\/rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/360\/1456\/767.full\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/360\/1456\/767.full&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pathways between neuroanatomical structures<\/a> such a brain cells identified by tracer techniques. &nbsp;It was also &nbsp;a term used by <a href=\"http:\/\/goertzel.org\/dynapsyc\/Rainio-Lewin&#39;s-psych-pdf-6-8-09.pdf\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/goertzel.org\/dynapsyc\/Rainio-Lewin&#39;s-psych-pdf-6-8-09.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kurt Lewin<\/a> (1936) in his book <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Principles of topological psychology,<\/span>&nbsp;New York:&nbsp;McGraw-Hill,&nbsp;with his invention of hodological space (a geometrical space in which people are attracted to or repulsed by other). &nbsp;In philosophy, it denotes the study of interconnected ideas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cerebellum_and_basal_ganglia\">Cerebellum and basal ganglia<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamic_field_theory\">Dynamic field theory<\/a>, Motor cortex  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used in many different disciplines (e.g., computer science, geography, town planning), but not found in the Oxford english dictionary, it is derived from the Greek word hodos meaning a &#8216;way&#8217;, and in general can be defined as the science of studying pathways between structures. &nbsp;In the present instance, it refers to pathways between neuroanatomical structures &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hodology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hodology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}