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Handbook of spatial cognition.
Abstract
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.
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“For example, distances between two locations are overestimated if they are separated by a barrier or boundary (such as state borders), and angles of intersections are remembered as being closer to 90 degrees 138 .”
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“and angles of intersections are remembered as being closer to 90 degrees 138 .”
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“As mentioned in the section on regionalization of space, findings from spatial cognition studies in humans show that semantic knowledge and language cues exert a powerful influence on human spatial judgements 29,138 and may contribute to spatial schemas.”
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- American Psychological Association eBooks
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Published
- 2013
- OpenAlex
- W579876315
- Cited by
- 140
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 6.79
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Psychological Association eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Keywords
- spatial cognition, spatial perception, spatial memory, spatial language, spatial navigation, spatial representation, animal cognition, environmental knowledge
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