Handbook of spatial cognition
By: edited by David Waller and Lynn Nadel
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781433812040
Subjects: Cognition; Spatial behavior; Space perception
Description: Spatial 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 neuroscience, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contributors list; title: Preface; title: Introduction. frameworks for understanding spatial thought: wrapping our heads around space. by david waller & lynn nadel; title: Neuroscientific dimensions of spatial cognition; title: Hippocampus and related areas : what the place cell literature tells us about cognitive maps in rats and humans / by A. David Redish & Arne Ekstrom; title: Parietal contributions to spatial cognition / by Raymond P. Kesner and Sarah H. Creem-Regehr; title: Online systems : acquisition and maintenance of spatial information; title: Spatial perception and action / by Brett R. Fajen & Flip Phillips; title: Multisensory contributions to spatial perception / by Betty J. Mohler, Massimiliano Di Luca & Heinrich H. Bülthoff; title: Perception of spatial relations during self-motion / by John W. Philbeck & Jesse Sargent; title: Individual and group differences in spatial ability / by Beth M. Casey; title: Offline systems : encoding, storage, and retrieval of spatial information; title: Spatial memory : place learning, piloting, and route knowledge / by Ken Cheng & Paul Graham; title: Cognitive maps / by Lynn Nadel; title: Spatial memory : properties and organization / by Timothy P. McNamara; title: The development of location coding : an adaptive combination account / by Mark P. Holden & Nora S. Newcombe; title: Models of spatial cognition / by Stephen C. Hirtle; title: Interpersonal dimensions of spatial cognition; title: I go right, north, and over : processing spatial language / by Holly A. Taylor & Tad T. Brunyé; title: Functions and applications of spatial cognition / by Daniel R. Montello & Martin Raubal; title: Wayfinding, navigation, and environmental cognition from a naturalist's stance / by Harry Heft.