Over the last century, several dozen case reports have presentedtopographically
disoriented'patients who, in some cases, appear to have selectively lost their ability to find …

Reviews research on human cognition in real, everyday settings. Cognitive mapping
literature is organized into 5 empirical categories: age, familiarity, gender, class and culture …

Paul A. Bell & Eric D. Sundstrom nvironmental psychology has existed as a branch of
psychology for approximately 30 years. It focuses on the ways in which features of the …

Wayfinding, conceptualized in terms of spatial problem solving, subsumes decision making,
decision executing and information processing. Spatial representations are a product of the …

Participants learned the layout of large-scale" virtual buildings" through extended
navigational experience, using" desk-top"(ie, nonimmersive) virtual environments (VEs) …

In visual navigation, landmarks can be used in a number of different ways. In this paper, we
investigate the role of global and local landmarks in virtual environment navigation. We …

Landmarks play an important role in guiding navigational behavior. A host of studies in the
last 15 years has demonstrated that environmental objects can act as landmarks for …

Just walking through the vast main concourse of Grand Central Terminal in New York...
almost always triggers in me a spontaneous and quiet change in perception.... The change …

Autonomous place detection has long been a major hurdle to topological map-building
techniques. Theoretical work on topological mapping has assumed that places can be …

The aim of this study was to examine differences in wayfinding strategies between good and
poor sense-of-direction (PSD) female undergraduate participants, using a think-aloud …