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The influence of landmark visualization style on task performance, visual attention, and spatial learning in a real-world navigation task Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Armand Kapaj, Christopher Hilton, Sara Lanini-Maggi, Sara I. Fabrikant
Depicting landmarks on mobile maps is an increasingly popular countermeasure to the negative effect that navigation aids have on spatial learning – landmarks guide visual attention and facilitate m...
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Resilience of navigation strategy and efficiency to the impact of acute stress Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Alexander P. Boone, Tom Bullock, Mary H. MacLean, Tyler Santander, Jamie Raymer, Alexander Stuber, Liann Jimmons, Gold N. Okafor, Scott T. Grafton, Michael B. Miller, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty
Increased cortisol may differentially impact navigation strategies. Three within-subjects experiments investigated how the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), the Cold Pressor Test (CPT), and a prolon...
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Individuals learning to drive solo before age 18 have superior spatial navigation ability compared with those who learn later Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Emre Yavuz, Ed Manley, Christoffer J. Gahnstrom, Sarah Goodroe, Antoine Coutrot, Michael Hornberger, Hugo Spiers
A challenge associated with driving vehicles can be navigating to destinations. While driving experience would seem beneficial for improving navigation skill, it remains unclear how driving experie...
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Real and virtual environments have comparable spatial memory distortions after scale and geometric transformations Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Fiona E. Zisch, Antoine Coutrot, Coco Newton, Maria Murcia-López, Anisa Motala, Jacob Greaves, William de Cothi, Anthony Steed, Nick Tyler, Stephen A. Gage, Hugo J. Spiers
Boundaries define space, impacting spatial memory and neural representations. Unlike rodents, impact in humans is often tested using desktop virtual-reality (VR). This lacks self-motion cues, dimin...
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Aligning indoor human route descriptions to facilitate the use of crowdsourced indoor navigation systems Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Zhicheng Zhan, Haosheng Huang, Stephan Winter, Nico Van de Weghe
Crowdsourced indoor route descriptions are increasingly used to provide user-friendly navigation services at low cost. In this study, we propose an approach for aligning indoor route descriptions a...
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Exploring diagram-based visual problem representation and relational abstraction Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Chayanika D. Nath, Shyamanta M. Hazarika
For visual information processing, the derivation of meaningful low-level spatio-temporal information is challenging. In line with human visualisation and perception in spatial problem-solving, we ...
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In memoriam: Christian Freksa (1950-2020) Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Thomas Barkowsky, Thora Tenbrink, Peter Haddawy, Ulrich Furbach
Published in Spatial Cognition & Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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Sex differences in self-reported spatial abilities and affect: a systematic review and meta-analysis Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Victoria Matthews, Clarisse Ramirez, Kate B. Metcalfe, Madeline Wiseman, Daniel Voyer
The present meta-analysis of 559 effect sizes examined sex differences in self-reported spatial abilities and affect, and their potential moderators. Results revealed a mean g of 0.498 (95% CI = 0....
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Am I Crossing a Border? Spatial Regionalization and Route Choice Depends on Perceived Landmark Categorization Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Lilian LeVinh, Hanspeter A. Mallot
We investigated the role of semantic similarities of place names in forming larger regions. The environment´s place names allowed two alternative semantic categorizations corresponding to two equal...
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Perceived Difficulty of Everyday Spatial Activities: Underlying Dimensions and Gender Differences Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Carol A. Lawton, Mark Y. Czarnolewski
The present work builds on prior development of the Everyday Spatial Behavioral Questionnaire (ESBQ), a measure of self-reported difficulty in performing familiar activities that involve spatial th...
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A similarity calculation model of road network and its application in map generalization quality evaluation Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Tianshu Chu, Haowen Yan, Pengbo Li, Xiaomin Lu, Xiaorong Gao
As an important part of maps, road networks have always been the focus of research in map generalization. However, the fully automated quality evaluation of road network generalization has not been...
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Treat robots as humans? Perspective choice in human-human and human-robot spatial language interaction Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Chengli Xiao, Weishuang Wu, Junyi Zhang, Liufei Xu
Spatial language interaction is critical for human-robot interactions. However, previous findings are inconsistent in people’s perspective choices for robots and humans. In two experiments, partici...
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Direction information is more influential than distance information in memory for location relative to landmarks Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Darin Galyer, Stephen Dopkins
Our results suggest that direction information is more influential than distance information in memory for the locations of objects relative to landmarks. Participants viewed target objects in conj...
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Task-dependent sketch maps Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Jakub Krukar, Antonia van Eek, Angela Schwering
Sketch maps are considered a reliable method for assessing spatial knowledge. However, it is unknown whether all information types in sketch maps are reconstructed with similar accuracy under diffe...
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Evidence for flexible navigation strategies during spatial learning involving path choices Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Stephanie Doner, Jingyi Zheng, Andrew S. McAvan, Michael J. Starrett, Hannah Campbell, Delaney Sanders, Arne Ekstrom
ABSTRACT In a classic study in 1946, Tolman et al. found that rodents chose the optimal path to a hidden goal location when given the option to take a shortcut. Subsequent studies, though, found mixed results, including a previous study in humans showing non-optimal response strategies. Here, we tested human participants in a virtual sunburst maze identical to that employed by Tolman. Across three
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List of Reviewers Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-10-11
Published in Spatial Cognition & Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 22, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Landmark weights - an alternative to spatial distances in shortest route algorithms Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Eva Nuhn, Sabine Timpf
ABSTRACT Although numerous studies have shown that landmarks are important for navigation, almost all navigation systems implement a shortest-route algorithm without considering landmarks. Which options do we have to integrate landmarks into a route calculation? How would the resulting routes differ from shortest routes? We propose a weighting method for Dijkstra’s shortest route algorithm to generate
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Transparency study of architectural space based on a scalar field function Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Xiaofeng Lou, Kaihuai Deng, Yidi Li, ChangHai Peng
ABSTRACT This paper studies the sufficient, necessary, and optimal conditions of the phenomenal transparency of architectural space (PTAS) by the eigenvector and eigenvalue of the gradient function of Scalar Field Function (SFF). Then, the SFF’s method is used to analyze the PTAS of significant contemporary or canonical architectural works. The conclusions are: the eigenvalue of the SFF and its integral
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An empirical study of the semantic similarity of geospatial prepositions and their senses Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Niloofar Aflaki, Kristin Stock, Christopher B. Jones, Hans Guesgen, Jeremy Morley
ABSTRACT Spatial prepositions have been studied in some detail from multiple disciplinary perspectives. However, neither the semantic similarity of these prepositions, nor the relationships between the multiple senses of different spatial prepositions, are well understood. In an empirical study of 24 spatial prepositions, we identify the degree and nature of semantic similarity and extract senses for
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Speaking of location: a review of spatial language research Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Kristin Stock, Christopher B. Jones, Thora Tenbrink
ABSTRACT Spatial language incorporates descriptions of locations, routes, and landscapes, and is used by humans daily. Research has addressed a wide range of aspects of spatial language, including its form; the ways in which it is selected and applied; and cognitive, geometric, and functional factors affecting its use. Furthermore, much work has been done on the automation of spatial language extraction
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Age-related changes in how 3.5- to 5.5-year-olds observe and imagine rotational object motion Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-07-10 Salome Pedrett, Alain Chavaillaz, Andrea Frick
ABSTRACT Mental representations of rotation were investigated in 3.5- to 5.5-year-olds (N = 74) using a multi-method approach. In a novel mental-rotation task, children were asked to choose one of two rotated shapes that would fit onto a counterpart. The developmental trajectory of mental rotation was compared to eye-tracking results on how the same children observed and anticipated circular object
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Route planning decisions: evaluating reliance on spatial heuristics under risk Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Mary E. Frame, Michaela Schwing, Samuel Johnston, Erica Curtis
ABSTRACT Spatial heuristics play a vital role in the decision-making process of route planning, but the crucial component of risk is often not considered. Whether in transportation logistics or military asset path planning, routes are evaluated in part based on the potential adverse outcomes of each route option. Drivers or dispatchers must consider the risks of inclement weather, adversarial threats
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Human spatial learning strategies in wormhole virtual environments Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Christopher Widdowson, Ranxiao Frances Wang
ABSTRACT Humans can learn spatial information through navigation in the environment. The nature of these spatial representations is constantly debated, including whether they conform to Euclidean geometry. The present study examined the types of Euclidean representations people may form while learning virtual wormhole mazes. Participants explored Euclidean or non-Euclidean tunnel mazes and drew maps
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Designing mobile spatial navigation systems from the user’s perspective: an interdisciplinary review Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Ian Ruginski, Nicholas Giudice, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Toru Ishikawa
ABSTRACT Navigation systems have become increasingly available and more complex over the past few decades as maps have changed from largely static visual and paper-based representations to interactive and multimodal computerized systems. In this introductory article to the Special Issue on Human-computer Interaction, Geographic Information, and Navigation, we review literature across a variety of fields
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Landmark information included in turn-by-turn instructions induce incidental acquisition of lasting route knowledge Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Anna Wunderlich, Sabine Grieger, Klaus Gramann
ABSTRACT The augmentation of landmarks in auditory navigation instructions has been shown to improve incidental spatial knowledge acquisition during assisted navigation. Here, two driving simulator experiments are reported that replicated this effect even when adding a three-week delay between navigation and spatial tasks and varying the degree of detail in the provided landmark information. Performance
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The role of a graphical interpretation factor in the assessment of Spatial Visualization: A critical analysis Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-12-26 Kristin A. Bartlett, Jorge Dorribo Camba
ABSTRACT Common tests of spatial skills do not simply test one’s ability to mentally manipulate shapes. Instead, many popular assessments depend on a separate ability to comprehend two-dimensional graphical depictions of three-dimensional objects. Two categories of evidence are presented: 1) a discussion of the visual problems present in the stimuli commonly used in spatial skills tests, and 2) a critical
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A reasoning model for geo-referencing named and unnamed spatial entities in natural language place descriptions Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Madiha Yousaf, Diedrich Wolter
ABSTRACT We investigate means to automatically interpret natural language place descriptions, i.e., to relate all nouns in the input text that represent geographic entities to corresponding entities in a geographic database. This task is often referred to as geo-referencing. Automated methods can contribute to text-based human-machine interaction with geographic information systems (GIS) and enable
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Taking the right (or left?) turn: effects of landmark salience on the retrieval of route directions Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Rebecca Albrecht, Rul von Stülpnagel
ABSTRACT We test the effect of a landmark’s visual and structural salience on memory retrieval of turning directions at intersections in a virtual environment. Across three studies, we find an increased decision correctness when the location of the visually salient landmark converges with the turning direction. This pattern is robust across various perspectives, including the return path. We find no
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How does the visual and cognitive saliency of landmarks improve construction of spatial representations in younger and older adults? Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Vanessa Ligonnière, V. Gyselinck, S. Lhuillier, M.A. Mostafavi, A. Dommes
ABSTRACT While the role of landmarks is well documented, little research has focused on the characteristics that allow landmarks to benefit the construction of spatial representations. Although their visual saliency has already been explored, cognitive saliency deserves attention. It could benefit to older people who experience decline in their spatial abilities. To explore this issue, young and older
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Frames of spatial reference in five Australian languages Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Bill Palmer, Dorothea Hoffmann, Joe Blythe, Alice Gaby, Bill Pascoe, Maïa Ponsonnet
ABSTRACT Australian Indigenous languages are widely cited as depending overwhelmingly on abstract cardinal terms for spatial reference. However, considerable under-recognized diversity exists, with systems invoking aspects of local topography or egocentric projections. The first step toward an empirically grounded understanding of the wider implications of Australian spatial reference systems is to
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Supporting spatial orientation during route following through dynamic maps with off-screen landmark persistence Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-10-03 Alastair D. Smith, Gary Priestnall, Juliette Cross
ABSTRACT We describe an exploratory investigation of a dynamic digital map, inspired by videogame design. Participants followed a novel route through an urban environment, using a custom map that presented directional information for off-screen landmark locations. Spatial orientation (pointing to remembered landmarks) in this group was compared to participants using a static version of the same custom
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Online mobile map effect: how smartphone map use impairs spatial memory Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-08-29 Masashi Sugimoto, Takashi Kusumi, Noriko Nagata, Toru Ishikawa
ABSTRACT This article examined people’s spatial memory and navigation performance when they learned an environmental route using a smartphone map and a paper map. Our results showed that the use of a smartphone map impaired spatial learning and knowledge acquisition. Specifically, participants learned a route less accurately when they used a smartphone map than when using a paper map, revealed by a
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Indoor landmark selection for route communication: the influence of route-givers’ social roles and receivers’ familiarity with the environment Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-08-08 Zhiyong Zhou, Robert Weibel, Cheng Fu, Stephan Winter, Haosheng Huang
ABSTRACT When conveying information about routes to follow in complex environments, human route-givers adapt to route-receivers’ familiarity with the environments in their choice of landmarks. Meanwhile, as route-givers themselves have experienced the environments within a social role, the landmarks they select may also differ significantly. This research investigated how these two factors influence
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It’s also about timing! When do pedestrians want to receive navigation instructions Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-08-08 Antonia Golab, Markus Kattenbeck, Georgios Sarlas, Ioannis Giannopoulos
ABSTRACT Despite the increased research interest in wayfinding assistance systems, research on the appropriate point in time or space to automatically present a route instruction remains a desideratum. We address this research gap by reporting on the results of an outdoor, within-subject design wayfinding study ( N=52). Participants walked two different routes for which they requested spoken, landmark-based
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Multi Spatial Relation Detection in Images Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Brandon Birmingham, Adrian Muscat
ABSTRACT Detecting spatial relationships between objects depicted in an image is an important sub-task in vision and language understanding. Its practical use lies in visual discourse when referring to objects by their relationship in context of others and finds application in higher level tasks such as visual question answering and image description generation. Presumably, the selection of spatial
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Names for urban places and conceptual taxonomies: the view from Italian Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Giuseppe Samo
ABSTRACT The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of urbanonyms, names for urban places, and show how this analysis can inform a conceptual taxonomy of urban places via the cultural lens of language. To reach this goal, the paper offers a classification of Italian urbanonyms (e.g., Via Nazionale “National Street”) based on data extraction from the Pagine Gialle directory, and a taxonomy of place
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Retracing evacuation strategy: A virtual reality game-based investigation into the influence of building’s spatial configuration in an emergency Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Dajana Snopková, Pavel Ugwitz, Zdeněk Stachoň, Jiří Hladík, Vojtěch Juřík, Ondřej Kvarda, Petr Kubíček
ABSTRACT During evacuation, individual navigation behavior is often dictated by the legibility of evacuation signs and the environmental setting itself. People tend to follow previously-used and known routes (to retrace) rather than follow evacuation signage. This has proven undesirable, even fatal, in emergencies and such behavior calls for a better understanding of the influencing factors. This contribution
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Navigating without vision: spontaneous use of terrain slant in outdoor place learning Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-04-25 Daniele Nardi, Katelyn J. Singer, Krista M. Price, Samantha E. Carpenter, Joseph A. Bryant, Mackenzie A. Hatheway, Jada N. Johnson, Annika K. Pairitz, Keldyn L. Young, Nora S. Newcombe
ABSTRACT The topography of the land provides a suite of spatial information for navigation. In an outdoor field experiment, we examined terrain slant as a nonvisual cue. Without being told which cue to use, blindfolded, sighted participants completed a place-learning task in a flat and a slanted site. Errors were significantly smaller in the slanted site. Furthermore, performance in the slanted – but
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Identifying optimal graphical level of detail to support orienting with 3D geo-visualizations Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Aaron L. Gardony, Dalit D. Hendel, Tad T. Brunyé
ABSTRACT Limited hardware processing capacities and network bandwidth constrain the quality and quantity of photogrammetrically derived 3D terrain models that users can effectively visualize. In the present study, we examined what graphical level of detail (LOD) is sufficient to support effective spatial localization and orientation in 3D renderings of large-scale environments. We developed an interactive
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Taking a closer look at indoor route guidance; usability study to compare an adapted and non-adapted mobile prototype Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-02-14 Laure De Cock, Nico Van de Weghe, Kristien Ooms, Nina Vanhaeren, Matteo Ridolfi, Eli De Poorter, Philippe De Maeyer
ABSTRACT As indoor wayfinding can be very challenging, adapted systems, which adapt the route instruction type, are being developed to facilitate more supportive indoor route guidance. In this study, such a system has been developed based on the results of an online survey. This adapted system was compared with a non-adapted system by use of eye tracking, position tracking, an orientation test and
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From architects’ terms to computable descriptions of spatial qualities Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-01-17 S. Key, M. D. Gross
ABSTRACT Architects speak of space and place using terms such as enclosure or privacy. These terms imply certain patterns of use and inhabitation. Spatial qualities in this study are the terms used to describe experiential qualities, encapsulated descriptions of the geometric configuration and their relationships to the building user. To demonstrate how architects might computationally describe various
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Aha! I know where I am: the contribution of visuospatial cues to reorientation in urban environments Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Efrosini Charalambous, Sean Hanna, Alan Penn
ABSTRACT Reorientation depends greatly on the perceived geometric information, which constantly changes during navigation in urban environments. Environmental novelty, as a driver of exploratory behavior, is likely to engender this spatial Aha! moment. The paper investigates the contribution of two qualitatively different types of novelty, corresponding to distinct visuospatial cues: (a) situations
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Guided navigation from multiple viewpoints using qualitative spatial reasoning Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 D. H. Perico, P. E. Santos, R. A. C. Bianchi
ABSTRACT Navigation is an essential ability for mobile agents to be completely autonomous and able to perform complex actions. However, the problem of navigation for agents with limited (or no) perception of the world, or devoid of a fully defined motion model, has received little attention from research in AI and Robotics. One way to tackle this problem is to use guided navigation, in which other
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Integration of sketch maps in community mapping activities Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-11-08 Ali Zare Zardiny, Farshad Hakimpour
ABSTRACT Drawing sketch maps is one of the most widely used tools for observation recording in community mapping. However, because sketches are not to scale and features are not precisely located, they are not spatially accurate. With this in mind, consider an important question. Can the use of sketch maps in a community mapping lead to an acceptable result? This article addresses this question by
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Computer models of saliency alone fail to predict subjective visual attention to landmarks during observed navigation Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Demet Yesiltepe, Ayse Ozbil Torun, Antoine Coutrot, Michael Hornberger, Hugo Spiers, Ruth Conroy Dalton
ABSTRACT This study aimed to understand whether or not computer models of saliency could explain landmark saliency. An online survey was conducted and participants were asked to watch videos from a spatial navigation video game (Sea Hero Quest). Participants were asked to pay attention to the environments within which the boat was moving and to rate the perceived saliency of each landmark. In addition
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Spatial adaptation: modeling a key spatial ability Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Andrew Lovett, Holger Schultheis
ABSTRACT Spatial adaptation is the process of adjusting one’s mental representations for a task, so that spatial details necessary for performing the task are captured in the representations, whereas irrelevant details are ignored. We believe this process plays a critical role both in spatial ability tests and in STEM domains because it produces problem-tailored representations that can facilitate
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The practice of judo: how does it relate to different spatial abilities? Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Chiara Meneghetti, Tommaso Feraco, Paola Ispiro, Stefanie Pietsch, Petra Jansen
ABSTRACT The study aimed to examine the relationship between the practice of judo and different spatial abilities. Several individual measures, including spatial tasks and questionnaires on wayfinding inclinations, were administered to 52 judo experts and 45 non-athlete controls. After learning by navigating in a virtual environment, participants were measured on their route retracing and shortcut
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Unraveling the contribution of left-right language on spatial perspective taking Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Linda Abarbanell, Peggy Li
ABSTRACT We examine whether acquiring left/right language affects children’s ability to take a non-egocentric left-right perspective. In Experiment 1, we tested 10–13 year-old Tseltal (Mayan) and Spanish-speaking children from the same community on a task that required they retrieve a coin they previously saw hidden in one of four boxes to the left/right/front/back of a toy sheep after the entire array
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Desktop versus immersive virtual environments: effects on spatial learning Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-09-13 Jiayan Zhao, Tesalee Sensibaugh, Bobby Bodenheimer, Timothy P. McNamara, Alina Nazareth, Nora Newcombe, Meredith Minear, Alexander Klippel
ABSTRACT Although immersive virtual reality is attractive to users, we know relatively little about whether higher immersion levels increase or decrease spatial learning outcomes. In addition, questions remain about how different approaches to travel within a virtual environment affect spatial learning. In this paper, we investigated the role of immersion (desktop computer versus HTC Vive) and teleportation
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The many faces of disorientation: a response to Daniel R. Montello Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Pablo Fernandez Velasco, Roberto Casati
ABSTRACT Daniel Montello’s commentary on our article “Subjective Disorientation as a Metacognitive Feeling” raises many interesting points. In this response, we hope to show that what might at first seem like strong disagreements are for the most part minor issues and that the disagreements that remain are of the fruitful kind that encourage further discussion and research.
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Subjective disorientation as a metacognitive feeling Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-05-31 Pablo Fernández Velasco, Roberto Casati
ABSTRACT There is a large body of literature on disorientation, ranging from behavioral studies to the analysis of search and rescue operations. However, the subjective side of disorientation remains insufficiently explored and, as a result, there is no unified account of the phenomenon. A working characterization of disorientation is a first step in the direction of this unified account. Through the
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Identification of physical and visual enclosure of landscape space units with the help of point clouds Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-05-22 Yijing Wang, Yuning Cheng, Sisi Zlatanova, Elisa Palazzo
ABSTRACT Vertical enclosure is incapable of describing the permeation of landscape space enclosures. Physical and visual enclosures are identified to compensate for enclosure cognition inadequacies. Physical enclosures reflect the restriction of behavior, and visual enclosures embody the viewshed extension range. An identification method is proposed and implemented using point cloud data. Multiple
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Nearness as context-dependent expression: an integrative review of modeling, measurement and contextual properties Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-05-22 Marc Novel, Rolf Grütter, Harold Boley, Abraham Bernstein
ABSTRACT Nearness expressions such as “near” are context-dependent spatial relations and are subject to the context variability effect. Depending on the provided context, “near” has a different semantic extension. We perform a literature review to identify the effect of context on “near”. To integrate the insights from different disciplines, we apply Turney’s contextualization framework which distinguishes
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Geographic orientation, disorientation, and misorientation: a commentary on Fernandez Velasco and Casati Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-05-22 Daniel R. Montello
ABSTRACT In this commentary on Fernandez Velasco and Casati’s “Subjective Disorientation as a Metacognitive Feeling” in this journal, I take issue with their distinction between “the objective condition of being lost and the subjective condition of disorientation”. Instead, I argue that being lost is geographic disorientation, and in all cases, it depends on a person’s subjective awareness that they
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A novel approach to analyzing all trials in chronometric mental rotation and description of a flexible extended library of stimuli Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Leonardo Jost, Petra Jansen
ABSTRACT Mirrored stimuli in chronometric mental rotation tests cannot be rotated into congruence and are typically discarded from analysis. We present a novel design using three figures such that congruence is achieved for all trials. For design construction, we consider the geometrical properties of rotation and mirroring. We have experimentally tested the approach with forty-one German sport students
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Visually scaling distance from memory: do visible midline boundaries make a difference? Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-02-25 Alycia M. Hund, Jodie M. Plumert, Kara M. Recker
ABSTRACT We examined how 4- to 5-year-old children and adults use perceptual structure (visible midline boundaries) to visually scale distance. Participants completed scaling and no scaling tasks using learning and test mats that were 16 and 64 inches. No boundaries were present in Experiment 1. Children and adults had more difficulty in the scaling than no scaling task when the test mat was 64 inches
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Test of a relationship between spatial working memory and perception of symmetry axes in children 3 to 6 years of age Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2020-02-24 Yinbo Wu, Anne R. Schutte
ABSTRACT Children’s memory responses to a target location in a homogenous space change from being biased toward the midline of the space to being biased away. According to Dynamic Field Theory (DFT), improvement in the perception of the midline symmetry axis contributes to this transition. Simulations of DFT using a 3-year-old parameter setting showed that memory biases at intermediate target locations
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Tuning in: can humans use auditory cues for spatial reorientation? Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Daniele Nardi, Alexandra D. Twyman, Mark P. Holden, Josie M. Clark
ABSTRACT The bulk of the research in spatial reorientation has studied how visual cues guide behavior. This project aims to explore the role of auditory cues. Using a find-and-replace paradigm in a circular search space, blindfolded sighted participants were able to reorient successfully using only auditory landmarks, albeit with errors larger than those found in visual-based reorientation. Importantly
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Place facets: a systematic literature review Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2019-11-17 Ehsan Hamzei, Stephan Winter, Martin Tomko
ABSTRACT Place is a central concept in geography and a topic of interest in the social sciences, urban planning, architecture, and most recently in information science. The notion of place has therefore been studied with different foci of interest. Consequently, heterogeneous terminologies, conceptualizations, models, and ontologies have been proposed to capture this elusive concept. Yet these studies
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Do environmental characteristics predict spatial memory about unfamiliar environments? Spatial Cognition & Computation (IF 1.533) Pub Date : 2019-10-20 Marianna Pagkratidou, Alexia Galati, Marios Avraamides
ABSTRACT Using Space Syntax techniques, we examined the relationship between environmental properties and spatial memory following navigation in a virtual environment. Participants navigated two main routes as well as two connector routes, memorizing landmark locations in the main routes. Memory was then examined through a pointing task and a model-building task. Participants pointed more accurately