The ability to accurately recall locations and navigate our environment relies on multiple
cognitive mechanisms. The behavioural and neural correlates of spatial navigation have …

Salient landmarks enhance route learning. We hypothesised that semantically salient
nostalgic landmarks would improve route learning compared to non-nostalgic landmarks. In …

Cue competition is a key element of many associative theories of learning. Overshadowing,
an important aspect of cue competition, is a phenomenon in which learning about a cue is …

Over the last 50 years, cue competition phenomena have shaped theoretical developments
in animal and human learning. However, recent failures to observe competition effects in …

Three experiments examined whether three factors (view of external targets, colored wall
cues, previous exploration of room) facilitate orientation within a virtual building and whether …

The way in which organisms represent the shape of their environments during navigation
has been debated in cognitive, comparative, and developmental psychology. While there is …

The question of how animals process stimulus mixtures remains controversial as opposing
views propose that mixtures are processed analytically, as the sum of their elements, or …

An influential theory of spatial navigation states that the boundary shape of an environment
is preferentially encoded over and above other spatial cues, such that it is impervious to …

When interacting with the environment, one can encode spatial information via egocentric or
allocentric perspectives. Allocentric processing can include both landmark and geometric …

A number of influential spatial learning theories posit that organisms encode a viewpoint
independent (ie allocentric) representation of the global boundary shape of their …