Existing frameworks for explaining spatial knowledge acquisition in a new environment
propose either stage-like or continuous development. To examine the spatial microgenesis …

Spatial skills are known to vary widely among normal individuals. This project was designed
to address whether these individual differences are differentially related to large-scale …

It seems intuitively obvious that active exploration of a new environment will lead to better
spatial learning than will passive exposure. However, the literature on this issue is decidedly …

Relationships among spatial abilities, as assessed by a battery of psychometric tests and
experimental tasks, and environmental learning, as assessed by a series of macrospatial …

An important issue in the study of spatial knowledge has been the distinction between
configurational and route knowledge. Route knowledge is characterized by the knowledge …

People acquire knowledge about the spatial layout of the places they experience (cities,
neighborhoods, buildings). This includes knowledge of locations, distances, and directions …

How adults and children come to understand, represent and behave within their spatial
environment are topics of great interest to geographers, psychologists, environmental …

Our purpose is to examine spatial knowledge acquisition via route learning processes. To
gain as much control as possible, yet study learning in actual environments, we conducted …

The acquisition and integration of configurational knowledge of spatial layout was studied in
a large building complex containing several levels. Twenty-four college students learned …

Although the process of establishing a memoryof a location is necessary for navigation,
relatively little is known about theinformation that humans use when forming placememories …