Spatial Cognition VII: International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2010, Mt. Hood Portland, OR, USA, August 15-19,02010, Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Individual Differences in Spatial Language and Way-Finding: The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Motivation....Pages 1-3
CogSketch: Sketch Understanding for Cognitive Science Research and for Education....Pages 4-4
The Refraction of Space: A Radical Reversal of Direction....Pages 5-6
Investigating the Role of Goals and Environmental Structure on Memory for Distance and Time in Virtual Environments....Pages 7-18
The Spatial and Temporal Underpinnings of Social Distance....Pages 19-31
The Role of Slope in Human Reorientation....Pages 32-40
Influence of Geometry and Objects on Local Route Choices during Wayfinding....Pages 41-53
Testing Landmark Identification Theories in Virtual Environments....Pages 54-69
Men to the East and Women to the Right: Wayfinding with Verbal Route Instructions....Pages 70-84
Do All Science Disciplines Rely on Spatial Abilities? Preliminary Evidence from Self-report Questionnaires....Pages 85-94
Gestures in Geology: The Roles of Spatial Skills, Expertise, and Communicative Context....Pages 95-111
Using Analogical Mapping to Assess the Affordances of Scale Models Used in Earth and Environmental Science Education....Pages 112-124
Aligning Spatial Perspective in Route Descriptions....Pages 125-138
The Role of Grammatical Aspect in the Dynamics of Spatial Descriptions....Pages 139-151
Implicit Spatial Length Modulates Time Estimates, But Not Vice Versa....Pages 152-162
Bio-inspired Architecture for Active Sensorimotor Localization....Pages 163-178
Color Binding in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory....Pages 179-190
Human EEG Correlates of Spatial Navigation within Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames....Pages 191-206
Putting Egocentric and Allocentric into Perspective....Pages 207-221
Reference Frames Influence Spatial Memory Development within and Across Sensory Modalities....Pages 222-233
Do We Need to Walk for Effective Virtual Reality Navigation? Physical Rotations Alone May Suffice....Pages 234-247
Eye Movements Reflect Reasoning with Mental Images but Not with Mental Models in Orientation Knowledge Tasks....Pages 248-261
An Eye-Tracking Study of Integrative Spatial Cognition over Diagrammatic Representations....Pages 262-278
Enriching Spatial Knowledge through a Multiattribute Locational System....Pages 279-288
Interactive Assistance for Tour Planning....Pages 289-302
Verbally Annotated Tactile Maps – Challenges and Approaches....Pages 303-318
Generating Adaptive Route Instructions Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning....Pages 319-334
Can Mirror-Reading Reverse the Flow of Time?....Pages 335-345
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