Bodily awareness is a central component of human sensation, action, and cognition. The
human body is subject to profound changes over the adult lifespan. We live in an aging …

Recent findings from spatial cognition and cognitive neuroscience suggest that different
types of mental representations could mediate the off-line retrieval of spatial relations from …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

Background. Memory decline is a prevalent aspect of aging but may also be the first sign of
cognitive pathology. Virtual reality (VR) using immersion and interaction may provide new …

The chapter deals with a form of transient spatial representation referred to as a spatial
image. Like a percept, it is externalized, scaled to the environment, and can appear in any …

Virtual reality is a promising tool for experimental psychology, enhancing the ecological
validity of psychological science. The advantage of VR is that it enables researchers to study …

In humans, the extent to which body-based cues, such as vestibular, somatosensory, and
motoric cues, are necessary for normal expression of spatial representations remains …

The role of environmental geometry in maintaining spatial orientation was measured in
immersive virtual reality using a spatial updating task (requiring maintenance of orientation …

This research examined whether visual and haptic map learning yield functionally
equivalent spatial images in working memory, as evidenced by similar encoding bias and …

Real-world navigation requires movement of the body through space, producing a
continuous stream of visual and self-motion signals, including proprioceptive, vestibular, and …