Recent work on human attention and representational systems has benefited from a growing interplay between research on normal attention and neuropsychological disorders such as visual neglect. Research over the past 30 years has convincingly shown that, far from being a unitary condition, neglect is a protean disorder whose symptoms can selectively affect different sensory modalities, cognitive...

Spatial cognition has been well examined using various psychological perspectives. Here we suggest that this previous research can be utilized to provide insight into source-code navigation and program comprehension. In our model, code represents an abstract space that must be navigated using the same cognitive strategies as for natural environments. Thus, when navigating ‘codespace’ computer p...

A web-based tool for visualizing the simulated structural behavior of building models was developed to support the teaching of structural design to architecture and engineering students by activating their spatial cognition capabilities. The main didactic issues involved establishing a consistent and complete three-dimensional vocabulary throughout a base collection of structural system diagram...

Current research on spatial temporal data modelling meets many problems, such as the separation of space and time, applicationdriven, not incorporating human cognition and confusing of representation for discrete and continuous spatial change. This paper proposes a general object-oriented model that tries to overcome above problems. The model is directed by human cognition on spatial object tha...

Cognitive psychology primarily focuses on understanding of how humans represent and process spatial information. Cognitive psychology approaches to spatial thinking consider how we think about space (i.e., thinking in space, and thinking about space) and how we use space to think (i.e., thinking with space). This paper outlines topics to be covered on each of these topics in a course on spatial...

Spatial dispersion games in which agents coordinate on distinct actions are extensively used in industrial organization and other economic settings, from classic models of product differentiation to trade expansion and contract enforcement. Recent theory has addressed the problem of agent unawareness of particular events (i.e., agents do not know that they do not know) and how to formally repre...

Sara Shettleworth has played a defining role in the development of animal cognition and its integration into other parts of biology, especially behavioural ecology. Here we chart some of that progress in understanding the causes and importance of variation in cognitive ability and highlight how Tinbergen's levels of explanation provide a useful framework for this field. We also review how exper...

background: the effect of ovariectomy and accompanying sudden loss of circulating gonad hormones on spatial learning performance in the young adult rats was examined. we hypothesized that spatial learning and memory in a considerable number of women who undergo a surgical menopause and estrogen deprivation before their natural menopause be impaired. methods: in this study, we used 26 wistar rat...