Psychology of spatial cognition

The Psychology of Practice: Lessons From Spatial Cognition

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When Psychology and Technology Converge. The Case of Spatial Cognition

The behaviors of spatial orientation that an organism displays result from its capacity for adapting, knowing, and modifying its environment; expressed in one word, spatial orientation behaviors result from its psychology. These behaviors can be extremely simple (consider, for example, obstacle avoidance, tropisms, taxis, or random walks) but extremely sophisticated as well: consider for exampl...

Spatial Cognition, Spatial Perception

“Where am I? Where am I going? How do I get there?” These are the questions on the minds of Spatial Cognition, Spatial Perception’s authors. And since this reviewer has chosen to write his review on location in a remote and unfamiliar city while traveling for a conference, such questions are on my mind as well. As my enormous human prefrontal cortex and conveniently opposable thumbs allow me to...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition Spatial Context Learning in Pigeons (Columba livia)

Origins of spatial, temporal and numerical cognition: Insights from comparative psychology.

Contemporary comparative cognition has a large repertoire of animal models and methods, with concurrent theoretical advances that are providing initial answers to crucial questions about human cognition. What cognitive traits are uniquely human? What are the species-typical inherited predispositions of the human mind? What is the human mind capable of without certain types of specific experienc...