background: researchers have been investigating similarities of and differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals for past few decades. several studies have shown that in the particular domain (e.g., spatial ability), male homosexuals would resemble female heterosexuals better than male heterosexuals. executive function, however, has received more attention than social cognition in this lin...

This article presents an approach to understanding human spatial competence that focuses on the representations and processes of spatial cognition and how they are integrated with cognition more generally. The foundational theoretical argument for this research is that spatial information processing is central to cognition more generally, in the sense that it is brought to bear ubiquitously to ...

* Cognitive Systems Research Group and SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Germany. Email: [email protected] Abstract. After a decade of temporal reasoning in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the 1980s and 1990s, spatial reasoning and spatial cognition have moved into the focus of interest in concentrated research enterprises since the mid 1990s. This paper describes the in...

diabetes mellitus is accompanied with disturbances in learning, memory, and cognitive skills in the humans and experimental animals. due to the anti-diabetic and antioxidant activity of pelargonidin (pg), this research study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of chronic oral pg on alleviating learning and memory disturbance in streptozotocin-diabetic rats. male wistar rats were divided into...

A tangible user interface for designers changes the way in which the designers perceive and interact with a digital model. We studied the changes a specific tangible user interface has on designers’ spatial cognition through the comparison of designers using tangible user interface and graphical user interface environments. The results reveal that TUIs change designers’ spatial cognition, and t...

Empirical attempts to understand connections between abstract cognition and sensori-motor processes have pointed toward an embodied view of cognition, where cognitive activity is strongly tied to sensori-motor activity. Here the authors test the ability of the cognitive system to impose structure on the world using a well-established phenomenon in spatial cognition--biases near spatial category...

Historical evolution and cross-cultural differences in spatial abilities are analyzed. Spatial abilities have been found to be significantly associated with the complexity of geographical conditions and survival demands. Although impaired spatial cognition is found in cases of, exclusively or predominantly, right hemisphere pathology, it is proposed that this asymmetry may depend on the degree ...

Previous research has shown that knowing a signed language enhances visuospatial cognition in numerous ways. The present study examined how much experience with and/or fluency in American Sign Language is needed to enhance hearing college students’ spatial cognitive skills. In Study 1, beginning students of ASL (n = 20) and of new spoken languages (n = 6) were tested on a battery of spatial cog...