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 …

Our spatial mental representations allow us to give refined descriptions of the environment
in terms of the relative locations and distances between objects and landmarks. In this study …

We examined the effect of structural context on memory for spatial location in young and
elderly women in two studies. Subjects studied and later reconstructed an array of visually …

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 …

Recent evidence suggests that familiarity with an environment may protect against spatial
memory decline for familiar objects in older adults. We investigated whether a familiar …

How we acquire and represent spatial information is one of the most important unsolved
issues in spatial cognition. Siegel and White (1975) affirmed that different forms of …

Compared with younger adults, older adults have more difficulty with navigation and spatial
memory in both familiar and unfamiliar domains. However, the cognitive mechanisms …

In this preliminary study we investigate gender differences in object location memory. Our
purpose is to extend the results about object location memory obtained in laboratory settings …

The ability to recognise places is known to deteriorate with advancing age. In this study, we
investigated the contribution of age-related changes in spatial encoding strategies to …

Research has shown that nonspatial features, including semantic categories, can bias
younger adults' spatial location memory. For example, semantically related information is …