Spatial awareness and knowledge about one's location in an environment is a necessity for
successful orientation, wayfinding, and navigation activities. Although familiar environments …

An important, but as yet incompletely resolved, issue is whether spatial knowledge acquired
during navigation differs significantly from that acquired by studying a cartographic map …

In an unfamiliar environment, searching for and navigating to a target requires that spatial
information be acquired, stored, processed, and retrieved. In a study encompassing all of …

To successfully navigate to a target, it is useful to be able to define its location at multiple
levels of specificity. For example, the location of a favorite coffee mug can be described in …

In everyday life, navigators often consult a map before they navigate to a destination (eg, a
hotel, a room, etc.). However, not much is known about how humans gain spatial knowledge …

This article looks at wayfinding and spatial orientation as important everyday spatial thinking
skills and discusses why some people have difficulty with the skills and how one can assist …

Digital maps on personal devices (eg, phones) are common tools used to aid navigation.
Different types of digital maps can influence spatial knowledge acquisition, and this effect …

Research on the existence of cognitive maps and on the cognitive processes that support
effective navigation has often focused on functioning across individuals. However, there are …

In this article, I define you-are-here (YAH) maps and consider their fundamental
characteristics from cartographic and psychological perspectives. I then review the basic …

The legibility of an environment (ie the ease with which a navigator can comprehend its
structure) is a fundamental component of urban design, and is related to navigational …