Navigation is coordinated and goal-directed movement through the environment by
organisms or intelligent machines. It involves both planning and execution of movements. It …

In 4 experiments, the authors investigated spatial updating in a familiar environment.
Participants learned locations of objects in a room, walked to the center, and turned to …

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

The literature often suggests that proprioceptive and especially vestibular cues are required
for navigation and spatial orientation tasks involving rotations of the observer. To test this …

This article examines the degree to which knowledge about the body's orientation affects
transformations in spatial memory and whether memories are accessed with a preferred …

Imaginal perspective switches are often considered to be difficult, because they call for
additional cognitive transformations of object coordinates (transformation hypothesis) …

A vibrotactile N-back task was used to generate cognitive load while participants were
guided along virtual paths without vision. As participants stepped in place, they moved along …

Three experiments investigated spatial orientation in a virtual navigation task. Subjects had
to adjust a homing vector indicating their end position relative to the origin of the path. It was …

Robust and effortless spatial orientation critically relies on “automatic and obligatory spatial
updating”, a largely automatized and reflex-like process that transforms our mental …

All living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire knowledge of this
space by traversing it, listening to verbal descriptions, and looking at maps, atlases, and …