Wayfinding Behavior
Subtitle: Cognitive Mapping and Other Spatial Processes
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 14, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780801859939
Subjects: Perception; Psychology; Human Geography; Spatial behavior; Cognitive Psychology; General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Science / General; Science : General; Congresses; Cognitive maps (Psychology); Human information processing; Spatial behavior in animals
First sentence: This first section explores the strong theoretical and empirical links between cognitive maps (or the internal representation of environmental information), the cognitive mapping process itself, the internal manipulation of information in the form of spatial choice and decision making, and the directed acts of human wayfinding through simple or complex environments.