Summary: The questions to be answered by three experiments were: Do children at the age of 6 construct spatial situation models of narrative texts and, if they do so, which elements of the underlying state of affairs are represented in the models. Before ...
Detours in labyrinthsSummary: The navigation on routes and generally the orientation in space strongly depends on the topographical nature of areas and routes. In six experiments carried out in a closed labyrinth we investigated what different kinds of ...
This study investigated the effect of regularity in environmental structure on wayfinding behavior and spatial knowledge. A total of 60 participants (7- to 8-year-olds, 11- to12-year-olds, and adults) performed self-determined movements in a desktop ...
What characteristics constitute a “helpful” landmark for wayfinding and how are they represented in the human brain? Experiment 1 compared recognition and wayfinding performance for visual, verbal, and acoustic landmarks (animals) learned in our virtual ...
The influence of environmental features of a route on distance knowledgeAbstract. Numerous studies have been carried out to investigate the knowledge of route distance in environmental space. Evidence suggests that the knowledge of distance is influenced ...
The “tunnel task”: a method to examine cognitive strategies for spatial orientationAbstract. We report on the theoretical development and empirical testing of a new spatial cognition task, during which participants complete a tour through a virtual ...
Knowledge acquisition and verbal linearization in spatial communicationAbstract. This paper deals with determinants of linearization in spatial communication. The well-known linearization principles, such as the principle of natural order, primarily ...
Zusammenfassung. Ansichtsbasierte Ansätze der mentalen Repräsentation räumlicher Information gehen davon aus, daß einzelne Ansichten, die während des Erwerbs räumlichen Wissens gesehen wurden, separat mental repräsentiert werden. Ein Netz solcher ...
Ontogenetic development of direction pointing in a familiar environment during childhoodAbstract. In a combined longitudinal vs. cross-sectional design study pointing performance in preschool and elementary school children in familiar school environments ...
Abstract. Recent studies have ascertained a link between the motor system and imagery in children. A motor effect on imagery is demonstrated by the influence of stimuli-related movement constraints (i. e., constraints defined by the musculoskeletal system)...
A new test on map understanding for preschool and elementary-school children was constructed based on a Piagetian framework of the development of spatial ability and representational understanding. Results from a study with 95 3- to 6-year-old children ...
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated the question, if the neural spatial cognition network is modulated by biological (Sex) and environmental factors (Experience, Spatial Component). Sex and Experience modulate response ...
This study investigated the process of spatial knowledge acquisition in younger adults (20–30 years), middle-aged adults (40–50 years), and older adults (60–70 years) in a desktop virtual environment, where participants learned a way through a virtual ...
Spanish and English speakers tend to conceptualize time as running from left to right along a mental line. Previous research suggests that this representational strategy arises from the participants’ exposure to a left-to-right writing system. However, ...
Recent studies on the conceptualization of abstract concepts suggest that the concept of time is represented along a left-right horizontal axis, such that left-to-right readers represent past on the left and future on the right. Although it has been ...
The body schema is a key component in accomplishing egocentric mental transformations, which rely on bodily reference frames. These reference frames are based on a plurality of different cognitive and sensory cues among which the vestibular system plays a ...
Abstract. People can mentally rotate objects that resemble human bodies more efficiently than nonsense objects in the same/different judgment task. Previous studies proposed that this human-body advantage in mental ...