We explore the environment not only by navigating, but also by viewing our surroundings
with our eyes. Here we review growing evidence that the mammalian hippocampal …

Spatial skills represent an important part of our cognitive processes and have been widely
studied in the last decades. The term “spatial skills” includes several abilities, some of them …

A key challenge for virtual reality level designers is striking a balance between maintaining
the immersiveness of VR and providing users with on-screen aids after designing a virtual …

Eye fixation patterns during mental imagery are similar to those during perception of the
same picture, suggesting that oculomotor mechanisms play a role in mental imagery (ie, the …

The present study has two-fold aims: to investigate whether gender differences persist even
when more time is given to acquire spatial information; to assess the gender effect when the …

Field independence (FI) has been found to correlate with a wide range of cognitive
processes requiring cognitive restructuring. Cognitive restructuring, that is going beyond the …

This article examined people's spatial memory and navigation performance when they
learned an environmental route using a smartphone map and a paper map. Our results …

Background: Military pilots show advanced visuospatial skills. Previous studies demonstrate
that they are better at mentally rotating a target, taking different perspectives, estimating …

Field independence refers to the ability to perceive details from the surrounding context as a
whole and to represent the environment by relying on an internal reference frame …

How people acquire environmental information brings out individual differences that are
extremely large and robust. We assume that different spatial strategies used to represent …