By common definition, emergence means “to come forth from concealment or
obscurity”(Webster's Dictionary). In the context of this book, emergence also implies “without …

We report four studies in which we investigated the production of spatial discourse designed
to help people move around in unfamiliar environments. In Study 1, descriptions of three …

This study investigated differences between individuals with survey and landmark-centred
spatial representations in different visuo-spatial tasks and in two way-finding tasks. The …

This volume is a direct result of an international conference that brought together a number
of scholars from Europe and the United States to discuss their ideas and research about …

Three experiments examined whether visuo-spatial working memory is involved in
processing spatial descriptions and tested whether different processes within the visuo …

Participants' ability to track the protagonist's position and surroundings, during continuous
reading, was investigated. In Experiment 1, participants read passages involving either …

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 …

The author summarizes his evolving interests from conditioning studies within a behaviorist
orientation, thence to human memory, knowledge representation, and narrative …

The dual‐task paradigm was used to show how visuospatial working memory and the
phonological loop are involved in processing scientific texts and illustrations presented via …

Il lavoro presenta alcuni dati relativi ad un Questionario autovalutativo sul senso
dell'orientamento e rappresentazione spaziale, proposto in una prima versione …