Human spatial representation: insights from animals.

By R. Wang, Elizabeth S. Spelke. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2002

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Do Humans Integrate Routes Into a Cognitive Map? Map- Versus Landmark-Based Navigation of Novel Shortcuts (2005, background): “Researchers on human and animal navigation have often assumed that such spatial knowledge is similar to a cartographic representation, to the point of calling it a cognitive map (Gallistel, 1990; O’Keefe & Nadel, 1978; Thinus-Blanc, 1987; Tolman, 1948), though this remains controversial ( Wang & Spe”
Bayesian Relational Memory for Semantic Visual Navigation (2019, background): “Extensive psychological evidences [46] also show that animals do not rely strongly on metric representations [54, 22].”
Taxonomy of Human Wayfinding Tasks: A Knowledge-Based Approach (2009, background): “In order to successfully solve wayfinding tasks, navigators have to monitor external and internal cues, representations of space have to be formed and manipulated, etc.”
Semi-parametric Topological Memory for Navigation (2018, background): “However, extensive evidence from psychology suggests that when traversing environments, animals do not rely strongly on metric representations (Gillner & Mallot, 1998; Wang & Spelke, 2002; Foo et al., 2005).”
Travel routes and planning of visits to out-of-sight resources in wild chacma baboons, Papio ursinus (2007, background): “In fact, there is experimental evidence that primates do take least-distance routes in small-scale space, when several resource places can be perceived at once (Menzel 1978; MacDonald & Wilkie 1990; Gallistel & Cramer 1996).”
Sex differences in intrinsic aptitude for mathematics and science?: a critical review. (2005, background): “In contrast, men and women perform equally when only one source of information is available (Hermer & Spelke, 1994; Wang & Spelke, 2002).”
Spatial Cognition and the Brain (2008, background): “Note that, although spatial updating and path integration are regarded as egocentric processes in some treatments (e.g., Wang & Spelke 2002), categorization of these processes per se is arbitrary, depending on whether the object or start locations are updated relative to the participant or whether…”
Remembering the past and imagining the future (2007, background): “However, there is currently no clear consensus, with various investigators stressing one or the other type of representation (e.g., cf. Poucet, 1993; Wang & Spelke, 2002).”
Natural Number and Natural Geometry (2011, background): “, [59]) and they may aid in landmark guidance in humans [60], but they do not account for the process by which children locate themselves within the larger spatial layout.”
Is there a geometric module for spatial orientation? squaring theory and evidence (2005, methodology): “ Wang and Spelke (2002, 2003) did not simply ignore data showing that featural information is used under some circumstances.”