Complexity as key to designing cognitive-friendly environments for older people

M Cassarino, A Setti - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The lived environment is the arena where our cognitive skills, preferences, and attitudes
come together to determine our ability to interact with the world. The mechanisms through …

Hippocampal and prefrontal processing of network topology to simulate the future

AH Javadi, B Emo, LR Howard, FE Zisch, Y Yu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological networks lie at the heart of our cities and social milieu. However, it remains
unclear how and when the brain processes topological structures to guide future behaviour …

Acquisition and transfer of spatial knowledge during wayfinding.

Q He, TP McNamara, B Bodenheimer… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
In the current study, we investigated the ways in which the acquisition and transfer of spatial
knowledge were affected by (a) the type of spatial relations predominately experienced …

Local use-dependent sleep in wakefulness links performance errors to learning

A Quercia, F Zappasodi, G Committeri… - Frontiers in Human …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Sleep and wakefulness are no longer to be considered as discrete states. During
wakefulness brain regions can enter a sleep-like state (off-periods) in response to a …

Entropy and a sub-group of geometric measures of paths predict the navigability of an environment

D Yesiltepe, PF Velasco, A Coutrot, AO Torun… - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite extensive research on navigation, it remains unclear which features of an
environment predict how difficult it will be to navigate. We analysed 478,170 trajectories from …

Multi-scale goal distance representations in human hippocampus during virtual spatial navigation

J Liu, D Chen, X Xiao, H Zhang, W Zhou, S Liang… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Goal-directed navigation relies on both coarse and fine-grained coding of spatial distance
between the current position of a navigating subject and a goal destination. However, the …

On the proposed role of metacognition in environment learning: recommendations for research

LA Mason, AK Thomas, HA Taylor - Cognitive Research: Principles and …, 2022 - Springer
Metacognition plays a role in environment learning (EL). When navigating, we monitor
environment information to judge our likelihood to remember our way, and we engage in …

Droplet etching of deep nanoholes for filling with self-aligned complex quantum structures

A Küster, C Heyn, A Ungeheuer, G Juska… - Nanoscale research …, 2016 - Springer
Strain-free epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) are fabricated by a combination of Al local droplet
etching (LDE) of nanoholes in AlGaAs surfaces and subsequent hole filling with GaAs. The …

Investigating the Relationship between Task Complexity, Cognitive Ability and Disorientation in Hypertext Navigation.

A Bayazit, S Bayram, GK Cumaoglu - World Journal on Educational …, 2018 - ERIC
Users sometimes face a common and serious problem called disorientation, which is
defined as the feeling of being lost in a web-based environment. It is important to determine …

Factors influencing orientation within a nested virtual environment: External cues, active exploration and familiarity

C Allison, ES Redhead - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
Three experiments using a spatial orientation task within a computer generated building
examined the factors influencing maintenance of orientation to an external reference frame …