It seems intuitively obvious that active exploration of a new environment will lead to better
spatial learning than will passive exposure. However, the literature on this issue is decidedly …

The spatial knowledge used for human navigation has traditionally been separated into
three categories: landmark, route, and survey knowledge. While behavioral research has …

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human
cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how …

Publisher Summary Most notably, comprehension necessitates the application of prior
knowledge in combination with the encoding of information currently in discourse focus …

As Talmy has observed, language schematizes space; language provides a systematic
framework to describe space, by selecting certain aspects of a referent scene while …

Research has demonstrated navigational aids impair spatial memory, but has not
considered important spatial cognitive concepts. For example, impairment may stem from …

Firefighters often need to digest complex spatial information within a short period of time for
search and rescue. Previous wayfinding literature has documented evidence about how the …

Three experiments investigated the role of egocentric orientation in subsequent memory for
layouts learned via route (ground-level) and survey (aerial or overview) perspectives …

Mental spaces are not unitary. Rather, people conceive of different spaces differently,
depending on the functions they serve. Four such spaces are considered here. The space of …

There are two major sources of information to build a topographic representation of an
environment, namely actual navigation within the environment (route perspective) and map …