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Montello, Daniel R.·2005·The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking
DOI 10.1017/cbo9780511610448.008
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Navigation is coordinated and goal-directed movement through the environment by organisms or intelligent machines. It involves both planning and execution of movements. It may be understood to include the two components of locomotion and wayfinding. Locomotion is body movement coordinated to the local surrounds; wayfinding is planning and decision making coordinated to the distal as well as local surrounds. Several sensory modalities provide information for navigating, and a variety of cognitive systems are involved in processing information from the senses and from memory. Animals update their orientation – their knowledge of location and heading – as they move about. Combinations of landmark-based and dead-reckoning processes are used to update. Humans also use symbolic representations to maintain orientation, including language and cartographic maps. Factors have been identified that make orientation easier in some environments than others. Neuroscience has pointed to the role of certain brain structures in the maintenance of orientation and has uncovered evidence for neurons that fire preferentially in response to an animal’s location or heading. Artificial intelligence researchers develop computer models that test theories of navigational cognition or just create competent robots.

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Authors
Montello, D. R.
Corresponding author
Montello, Daniel R.
Venue
The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2005-07-18
Pages
257-294
DOI
10.1017/cbo9780511610448.008
OpenAlex
W1507826200
Cited by
305
References
90
Citations by year
2026: 33 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 26
FWCI
7.43
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 2514 d)
Locations
Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Inertial Sensor and Navigation
Keywords
navigation, wayfinding, locomotion, orientation, landmark-based navigation, dead reckoning, cognitive maps, spatial memory, heading, brain structure, place cells, robot navigation, artificial intelligence

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