Editorial: Cognition and Adaptation to Urban Environments

Editorial: Stress and Cognition

Editorial: Language, Cognition, and Gender

Gender inequality remains a contentious issue in many societies, despite legislative, and other less formal attempts to tackle it. It is perpetuated, in part, by gender stereotyping. Previous research indicates that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Genderrelated information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical categor...

Editorial: Abstract Mathematical Cognition

Mathematical Cognition Despite the importance of mathematics in our educational systems, little is known about how abstract mathematical thinking emerges. Most research on mathematical cognition has been dedicated to understanding its more simple forms such as seriation and counting. Although these forms constitute the foundational plinth upon which all other maths skills develop, the gap betwe...

City rats: From rat behaviour to human spatial cognition in urban environments

The structure and shape of an urban environment influence our ability to find our way about in the city 1-2. Indeed, urban designers who face the challenge of planning environments that facilitate wayfinding 3 , have a consequent need to understand the relations between the urban environment and spatial cognition 4. Previous studies have suggested that certain qualities of city elements, such a...

Explanation of Water Indices and Criteria in the Urban Landscape in Order to Improve the Quality of Urban Environments

Water as one of the most essential natural elements of landscape and consequently urban landscape from yesterday till today has had a great impact on the formation and effectiveness of urban spaces and its various effects have always stimulated human tendency towards beauty. It should be noted that the existential values ​​of water are not merely aesthetic, rather it goes back to the deepest an...