When you turn away from your desk, how is it that you inevitably know the shortest direction
to turn back to face it? When you enter your dark house at night, how are you able to point …

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 …

Route maps have recently gained much attention as effective tools to convey route
information. Benefits of maps are attributed to their ubiquitous existence in culture and their …

Navigation and representations of the spatial environment are central to human survival. It
has often been debated whether spatial representations follow Euclidean principles, and a …

Abstract Objects learned within single enclosed spaces (eg, rooms) can be represented
within a single reference frame. Contrarily, the representation of navigable spaces (multiple …

In this study, we examined the extent to which knowledge about the sequence of places
encountered during route learning supports the formation of a metric cognitive map. In a …

An important question regards how we use environmental boundaries to anchor spatial
representations during navigation. Behavioral and neurophysiological models appear to …

Car navigation has become one of the most widely used examples of Location-Based
Services (LBSs). However current car navigation systems are not fully suitable for the …

What characteristics constitute a “helpful” landmark for wayfinding and how are they
represented in the human brain? Experiment 1 compared recognition and wayfinding …

The structure of the physical environment can have a significant influence on individuals'
ability to orient within it. We asked participants to perform a cued wayfinding task in two …