Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, Seventh Edition by
David Bjorklund remains the most comprehensive and current topical textbook available in …

Navigation waxes and wanes in precision and flexibility over the life span. However, at no
age is it completely egocentric or allocentric, or completely nonmetric. Instead, we see …

Spatial orientation and navigation are fundamental abilities in daily life that develop
gradually during childhood, although their development is still not clear. The main aim of the …

Finding one's way in unfamiliar environments is an essential ability. When navigating,
people are overwhelmed with an enormous amount of information. However, some …

Sex differences in human navigation and orientation skills are among the most recognized
and studied in human cognition. Numerous findings have shown sex biases on various …

Cross-sectional studies have suggested that the ability to form cognitive maps increases
throughout childhood and reaches adult levels during early adolescence. However, adults …

Structural plasticity changes and functional differences in executive control tasks have been
reported in bilinguals compared to monolinguals, supporting a proposed bilingual …

Wayfinding refers to the process of locating unseen destinations in the spatial environment
and is an important spatial skill for children. Despite a growing interest in wayfinding …

Successful navigation to spatial locations relies on lasting memories from previous
experiences. Spatial navigation undergoes profound maturational changes during …

Research on spatial navigation is essential to understanding how mobile species adapt to
their environments. Such research increasingly uses virtual environments (VEs) because …