Global ageing demographics coupled with increased urbanisation pose major challenges to
the provision of optimal living environments for older persons, particularly in relation to …

Bodily awareness is a central component of human sensation, action, and cognition. The
human body is subject to profound changes over the adult lifespan. We live in an aging …

In emergency situations such as fire evacuation, indoor wayfinding is a complex and
challenging task that is closely related to spatial cognition and spatial ability. This study …

Being able to represent and remember verbally-encoded information about spatial
environments from different perspectives is important for numerous daily activities. The …

Background and aims It is often necessary in daily experience to change one's point of view
to adopt mentally the spatial perspective of other persons, learn the position of different …

Abstract Representations of space in mind are crucial for navigation, facilitating processes
such as remembering landmark locations, understanding spatial relationships between …

Spatial representations of an environment involve different perspectives and can derive from
different inputs, including spatial descriptions. While it is well-established that memory of …

Spatial perception is formed throughout our entire lives. Its quality depends on our individual
differences and the characteristics of the environment. A sketch map is one way of …

Familiarity with an environment enables us to form elaborate mental representations, which
also relate to individual visuo-spatial factors. This study examines how several individual …

This study examined age‐related differences between young and older adults in the
involvement of verbal and visuo‐spatial components of working memory (WM) when paths …