num_pages: 580
description: Visuospatial thinking encompasses a wide range of thinking processes concerning space whether it be navigating across town understanding multimedia displays reading an architectural blueprint or a map. Understanding it and in particular how people represent and process visual and spatial information is relevant not only to cognitive psychology but also education geography architecture medicine design computer science/artificial intelligence semiotics and animal cognition. This book presents a broad overview of research that can be applied to basic theoretical and applied/naturalistic contexts.
language: English
title: The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking
publisher: Cambridge University Press