Orientation Dependency in Mental Representation of Spatial Layout

Spatial Orientation, Wayfinding, and Representation

The mental representation of spatial descriptions.

Two experiments investigated the mental representation of spatial descriptions. In Experiment 1, the subjects classified a series of diagrams, each presented after a spatial description, as either consistent or inconsistent with the description. They were then given an unexpected recognition test of their memory for the descriptions. The subjects remembered the meanings of determinate descripti...

Spatial Representation and Production and Reproduction of the Mental Image: Lefebvre’s Trialectic Approach

Lefebvre's theory of space production has been very much considered. In particular, it is important to integrate it systematically into the categories of city and space as a comprehensive and comprehensible social theory. Lefebvre's theory of space production has been remarkable in recent years and has responded well to the many questions posed in the early 1970s. Lefebvre in his trialectic in ...

Representation of spatial frequency and orientation in the visual cortex.

Knowledge of the response of the primary visual cortex to the various spatial frequencies and orientations in the visual scene should help us understand the principles by which the brain recognizes patterns. Current information about the cortical layout of spatial frequency response is still incomplete because of difficulties in recording and interpreting adequate data. Here, we report results ...

The effects of spatial layout on relationships between performance, path patterns and mental representation in a hypermedia information search task

Hypermedia is a system of digitized information (e.g. text, images, audio) connected via hyperlinks. When users work with hypermedia, they often encounter such problems as disorientation (McLeese, 1989; Ransom et al. 1997) which can be caused by excessive cognitive overhead (Ransom et al. 1997; Tsai, 1988). Disorientation refers to the tendency for users to lose their understanding of their loc...