Description
Book SynopsisSpatial cognition is a branch of cognitive psychology that studies how people acquire and use knowledge about their environment to determine where they are, how to obtain resources, and how to find their way home. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including neuroscience, cognition, and sociology, have discovered a great deal about how humans and other animals sense, interpret, behave in, and communicate about space.
This book addresses some of the most important dimensions of spatial cognition, such as neurology, perception, memory, and language. It provides a broad yet detailed overview that is useful not only to academics, practitioners, and advanced students of psychology, but also to city planners, architects, software designers, sociologists, and anyone else who seeks to understand how we perceive, interpret, and interact with the world around us.
Table of ContentsContributors
Preface
Introduction: Frameworks for Understanding Spatial Thought (or Wrapping Our Heads Around Space)
David Waller and Lynn Nadel
I. Neuroscientific Dimensions of Spatial Cognition
- Hippocampus and Related Areas: What the Place Cell Literature Tells Us About Cognitive Maps in Rats and Humans
A. David Redish and Arne Ekstrom
- Parietal Contributions to Spatial Cognition
Raymond P. Kesner and Sarah H. Creem-Regehr
II. Online Systems: Acquisition and Maintenance of Spatial Information
- Spatial Perception and Action
Brett R. Fajen and Flip Phillips
- Multisensory Contributions to Spatial Perception
Betty J. Mohler, Massimiliano Di Luca, and Heinrich H. Bülthoff
- Perception of Spatial Relations During Self-Motion
John W. Philbeck and Jesse Sargent
- Individual and Group Differences in Spatial Ability
Beth M. Casey
III. Offline Systems: Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval of Spatial Information
- Spatial Memory: Place Learning, Piloting, and Route Knowledge
Ken Cheng and Paul Graham
- Cognitive Maps
Lynn Nadel
- Spatial Memory: Properties and Organization
Timothy P. McNamara
- The Development of Location Coding: An Adaptive Combination Account
Mark P. Holden and Nora S. Newcombe
- Models of Spatial Cognition
Stephen C. Hirtle
IV. Interpersonal Dimensions of Spatial Cognition
- I Go Right, North, and Over: Processing Spatial Language
Holly A. Taylor and Tad T. Brunyé
- Functions and Applications of Spatial Cognition
Daniel R. Montello and Martin Raubal
- Wayfinding, Navigation, and Environmental Cognition From a Naturalist's Stance
Harry Heft
Index
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