The ability to recover one's bearings when lost is a skill that is fundamental for spatial
navigation. We review the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie this ability, with …

Blindness often results in the adaptive neural reorganization of the remaining modalities,
producing sharper auditory and haptic behavioral performance. Yet, non-visual modalities …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

The human brain appears to have several “regions” that are structured to do different kinds
of spatial thinking, according to a large and rapidly growing body of research in a number of …

The aim of this review is to bring the phenomenological sense of place approach together
with current results from neuroscience. We searched in neuroscientific literature for ten …

Current theories of environmental cognition typically differentiate between an online,
transient, and dynamic system of spatial representation and an offline and enduring system …

Three experiments investigated the role of egocentric orientation in subsequent memory for
layouts learned via route (ground-level) and survey (aerial or overview) perspectives …

The chapter deals with a form of transient spatial representation referred to as a spatial
image. Like a percept, it is externalized, scaled to the environment, and can appear in any …

Spatial reference frames are fundamental to represent the position of objects or places.
Although research has reported changes in spatial memory abilities during childhood and …

There is evidence that early deprivation of vision prompts the use of body-based, egocentric
spatial representations in congenitally blind individuals, whereas previous visual experience …