The purpose of this article is to review and evaluate the range of theories proposed to
explain findings on the use of geometry in reorientation. We consider five key approaches …

The nativist–empiricist debate and the nativist commitment to the idea of core knowledge
and endowments that exist without relevant postnatal experience continue to distract …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

For many centuries, philosophers and scientists have pondered the origins and nature of
human intuitions about the properties of points, lines, and figures on the Euclidean plane …

Abstract With over 30,000 recognized species, fishes exhibit an extraordinary variety of
morphological, behavioural, and life-history traits. The field of fish cognition has grown …

When psychological research is formulated from an interactionist point of view, the individual
and environment are treated as independent, if interacting factors. From such an approach …

In rectangular arenas, rats often confuse diagonally opposite corners, even when distinctive
cues differentiate them. This led to the postulation that rats rely preferentially on the …

Studies on the ontogenetic origins of human knowledge provide evidence for a small set of
separable systems of core knowledge dealing with the representation of inanimate and …

Globally, millions of zebrafish (Danio rerio) are used for scientific laboratory experiments for
which researchers have a duty of care, with legal obligations to consider their welfare …

A review of selected works on spatial memory in animals and humans is presented, and
some ideas about the encoding of geometry and its role in evolution are presented, based …