Spatial judgments and actions are often based on multiple cues. The authors review a
multitude of phenomena on the integration of spatial cues in diverse species to consider …

Navigation is an inherently dynamic and multimodal process, making isolation of the unique
cognitive components underlying it challenging. The assumptions of much of the literature …

A variety of studies have demonstrated that organizing stimuli into categories can affect the
way the stimuli are perceived. We explore the influence of categories on perception through …

The ability to sustain internal representations of the sensory environment beyond immediate
perception is a fundamental requirement of cognitive processing. In recent years, debates …

Efficient data compression is essential for capacity-limited systems, such as biological
perception and perceptual memory. We hypothesize that the need for efficient compression …

Remembering where things are–object–location memory–is essential for daily-life
functioning. Functionally, it can be decomposed into at least three distinct processing …

Orientational metaphors that associate good with up and bad with down illustrate that spatial
terms can be used to describe positivity and negativity. The present work examined how the …

Space and time are important components of our episodic memories. Without this
information, we cannot determine the “where and when” of our recent memories, rendering it …

A goal in the study of spatial development is to answer, with regard to this domain, some of
the classic questions in the history of psychology, biology, and philosophy: the extent to …

Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-
scale space ('put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left'), while geocentric …