Is there a geometric module for spatial orientation? squaring theory and evidence

By Ken Cheng, Nora S. Newcombe. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2005

614 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Geometry and Topology, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Russell A. Epstein
2. L. Matzel
3. Charles R. Gallistel
4. Paul Graham
5. Antoine Wystrach
6. Neil Burgess
7. Eleanor A. Maguire
8. György Buzsáki

In Geometry and Topology

1. Neil Burgess
2. Russell A. Epstein

In Social Psychology

1. Neil Burgess
2. Russell A. Epstein

Citations in the corpus

• Spatial Cognition and the Brain (2008, background): “See Cheng and Newcombe (2005) for a recent review.”
• The neuroscience of learning: beyond the Hebbian synapse. (2013, background): “There is now a large behavioral literature pro and con (for recent reviews, see Burgess 2008, Cheng 2008, Cheng & Newcombe 2005, Vallortigara 2009).”
• Parahippocampal and retrosplenial contributions to human spatial navigation (2008, background): “The idea that the PPA encodes only geometry fits nicely with behavior studies indicating that animals and humans preferentially use the shape of local space to re-orientate when lost [ 48 ].”
• What can we learn from studies of insect navigation (2012, background): “Vertebrates have been assumed to segregate functionally the geometrical layout of the environment from the features that compose it (Cheng 1986; Cheng & Newcombe 2005).”