Spatial tasks in rodents are commonly used to study general mechanisms of cognition. We review two groups of novel spatial tasks for rodents and discuss how they can extend our understanding of mechanisms of spatial cognition. The first group represents spatial tasks in which the subject does not locomote. Locomotion influences neural activity in brain structures important for spatial cognition...

Alternative explanations for the male advantage in arithmetical reasoning, as measured by the ability to solve complex word problems, include a male advantage in spatial cognition and a male advantage in computational fluency. The current study was designed to test these competing hypotheses. To this end, 113 male and 123 female undergraduates were administered arithmetical computations and ari...

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We examined the relationship between object location and identity memory in visuospatial working memory and how this relationship may change with normal aging. We also investigated metacognitive accuracy, or the ability to monitor one’s own cognitive processes, for spatial information. In Experiment 1 older and younger adults saw up to 5 objects in a 5x5 grid and were instructed to attend to ei...