Familiarity with an environment produces refined mental representations in adults of all
ages, but it is not clear whether these representations tend to have a north‐up orientation …

This study aimed to investigate age-related differences in spatial mental representations of
familiar and unfamiliar places. Nineteen young adults (aged 18–23) and 19 older adults …

The influences of age and/or sex on topographical memory for one's hometown have rarely
been explored. Sixty-three healthy adults (aged 20–79) living in the Sydney region …

Background and aims A mental map of well-known places is organized according to a
specific orientation where spatial information located in front of a person is more accessible …

We examined how a highly familiar environmental space—one's city of residence—is
represented in memory. Twenty-six participants faced a photo-realistic virtual model of their …

Retrieving spatial information is a crucial everyday ability that is affected by age‐related
changes. Previous research has shown that this change is mediated by familiarity with an …

The present study examines age‐related differences between young and older adults in
spatial mental representation derived from learning a realistic city map. A sample of 30 …

The present study explores how age and individual visuo-spatial factors influence the
processes underlying spatial mental representations derived by learning from a map. Forty …

In this experiment we examined orientation dependency in human memory for a highly
familiar environmental space. Twenty-seven inhabitants living for at least two years in …

The relationship between self‐evaluation of sense of direction, mental rotation, and
performance in map learning and pointing tasks has been investigated in a life‐span …