Spatial skills are key predictors of achievement in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics disciplines, despite being acquired through everyday life and not formally …

Research has established that GPS use negatively affects environmental learning and
navigation in laboratory studies. Furthermore, the ability to mentally rotate objects and …

Imaginary worlds are extremely successful. The most popular fictions produced in the last
few decades contain such a fictional world. They can be found in all fictional media, from …

The present chapter introduces an issue on the domain of spatial cognition and, more
specifically, the relationship between individual differences and the ability to learn about an …

Wayfinding (WF) is the ability to move around efficiently and find the way from a starting
point to a destination. It is a component of spatial navigation, a coordinate and goal-directed …

Literature on driving research suggests a relationship between cognition and driving
performance in older and younger drivers. There is little research on adults and driving …

Familiarity enables us to form elaborate mental representations of environments, which are
usually assessed with tasks that involve managing spatial information (such as pointing and …

Landmark‐based pedestrian navigation can assist pedestrians in navigating successfully.
Previous studies have investigated the factors affecting the cognitive efficiency of landmark …

Background A previous study suggested older drivers with subjective memory concerns
(SMC) had increased odds of experiencing car collisions, but whether SMC in different …

This study aimed to examine the relationship between people's self-reported wayfinding
inclinations, their preference for certain navigation aids (maps vs. GPS vs. verbal directions) …