Mental representations of spatial relations

TP McNamara - Cognitive psychology, 1986 - Elsevier
… Three classes of theories of the mental representation of … among objects in an environment
are mentally represented in … model, the mental representation of one of the layouts would …

[HTML][HTML] Frame of reference in the mental representation of objects layout

CX Xie, Q Liu, AJ Li, WD Tao… - Acta Psychologica Sinica, 2009 - journal.psych.ac.cn
… frames of the object layout and environmental reference frames. … In addition, in our experiment,
some of the objects were … , while some other objects are positioned outside those intrinsic …

Mental representations of large and small spatial layouts are orientation dependent.

B Roskos-Ewoldsen, TP McNamara… - Journal of …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
… This analysis parallels recent investigations of visual object … the mental representation of
intraobject spatial relations. Recent studies indicate that mental representations of objects may …

The mental representation of spatial descriptions

K Mani, PN Johnson-Laird - Memory & Cognition, 1982 - Springer
representations: "It would be quite permissible ... to have a [propositional] mental representation
of two objects … would construct a mental model of the spatial layout characterized by a …

The representation of space in mental models derived from text

W Langston, DC Kramer, AM Glenberg - Memory & Cognition, 1998 - Springer
… According to the text, a critical object ended up close to a target object (in the spatial layout)
… by a mental representation formed from a linguistic description, a mental representation …

Surface construal and the mental representation of scenes.

CV Gottesman, H Intraub - Journal of experimental psychology …, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
… shows that extrapolation of spatial layout in the mental representation of scenes is
influenced by top-down construal of space. A blank background behind an object will tend to be …

Mental representations of perspective and spatial relations from diagrams and models.

DJ Bryant, B Tversky - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
… Corroborating this analysis, people are faster to identify the tops and bottoms of objects
than the fronts and behinds of objects at all orientations (Jolicoeur, Ingleton,Bartram, & Booth, …

Mental representation and the spatial structure of virtual environments

L Belingard, P Péruch - Environment and Behavior, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
mental representation that people form. Three groups of participants visited the locations of
several objects in … After learning, the objects were removed, and participants were required to …

The effects of spatial layout on relationships between performance, path patterns and mental representation in a hypermedia information search task

PM Boechler, MRW Dawson - Interactive Technology and Smart …, 2005 - emerald.com
layouts on three facets of hypermedia use, performance, path patterns and mental representation,
… the development of their mental representations of the material in a hyper document. …

Mental representations derived from spatial descriptions: The influence of orientation specificity and visuospatial abilities

C Meneghetti, F Pazzaglia, R De Beni - Psychological Research, 2015 - Springer
… PT ability (consisting in the ability to imagine adopting misaligned positions in relation to
an object layout) became essential to learning route descriptions (when different imaginary …