Research on human navigation by psychologists and neuroscientists has come mainly from
a limited range of environments and participants inhabiting western countries. By contrast …

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior
in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated …

Cross-culturele psychologie is de studie van de relaties tussen menselijk gedrag en de
culturele context. In dit handboek komen alle vormen van gedrag aan bod, de belangrijkste …

This article provides a description and discussion of an exploratory research study that
examined the effects of using geospatial technology (GST) on high school students' spatial …

Time, an everyday yet fundamentally abstract domain, is conceptualized in terms of space
throughout the world's cultures. Linguists and psychologists have presented evidence of a …

Manfred Spitzer (n. 1958) este unul dintre cei mai faimoși specialiști în neuroștiințe din
Germania, foarte implicat în dezbaterile despre tehnologie și educație. A studiat medicina …

This article investigates the extent to which the way individuals describe spatial relationships
correlates with features of the local landscape. Drawing on empirical data from two …

Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-
scale space ('put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left'), while geocentric …

In numerous languages, space provides a productive domain for the expression of time. This
paper examines how time-to-space mapping is realized in Yucatec Maya. At the linguistic …

All living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire knowledge of this
space by traversing it, listening to verbal descriptions, and looking at maps, atlases, and …