Navigating to goal locations in a known environment (wayfinding) can be accomplished by
different strategies, notably by taking habitual, well‐learned routes (response strategy) or by …

The spatial environments in which humans and animals navigate tend to be complex and
dynamic, and are often characterized by information shortage. Getting around is a …

Research on human navigation by psychologists and neuroscientists has come mainly from
a limited range of environments and participants inhabiting western countries. By contrast …

Navigation is a complex task that depends on the processes of perception, learning,
memory, and reasoning to be successful. Given this complexity, it is not surprising that …

The metaphor of a" cognitive map" has attracted wide interest since it was first proposed in
the late 1940s. Researchers from fields as diverse as psychology, geography, and urban …

Successful navigation often requires detecting and exploiting a range of affordances in the
environment. These can be visible affordances such as a path enabling efficient travel, a …

We investigated the efficiency with which men and women find their way to novel
destinations using directions containing landmarks or cardinal descriptors and how such …

Intersections are critical decision points for wayfinders, but it is unknown how decision
dynamics unfold during pedestrian wayfinding. Some research implies that pedestrians …

The ability to find one's way in our complex environments represents one of the most
fundamental cognitive functions. Although involving basic perceptual and memory related …

ABSTRACT A basic set of navigation strategies supports navigational tasks ranging from
homing to novel detours and shortcuts. To perform these last two tasks, it is generally …