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1 online resource (xx, 346 pages) : illustrations |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface: Routes of Human Spatial Memory Research; I: Theoretical Issues in Remembering Where; 1 Remembering Where Things Are; 2 Starting Points and Change in Early Spatial Development; 3 Proximity and Precision in Spatial Memory; II: The Task of Remembering "Where Is It?"; 4 Visuospatial Working Memory for Different Scales of Space: Weighing the Evidence; 5 Temporal Memory for Locations: On the Coding of Spatiotemporal Information in Children and Adults |
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6 Seeing Space in More Than One Way: Children's Use of Higher Order Patterns in Spatial Memory and Cognition7 The Neuropsychology of Object-Location Memory; III: The Task of Remembering "Where Am I?"; 8 Remembering Spatial Locations: The Role of Physical Movement in Egocentric Updating; 9 Memories of Travel: Dead Reckoning Within the Cognitive Map; 10 Neurocognitive Components of Spatial Memory; IV: Remembering Where in Artificial Media and From Alternative Perspectives; 11 Spatial Memory of Real Environments, Virtual Environments, and Maps |
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12 Young Children's Recognition and Representation of Urban Landscapes: From Aerial Photographs and in Toy Play13 Putting Spatial Memories Into Perspective: Brain and Behavioral Evidence for Representational Differences; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
This text presents an intriguing picture of an everyday aspect of mental life that is as puzzling to people outside of academia as it is to scientists studying human cognition and behaviour: How do we remember where objects are located? How do we remember where we are in relation to other places? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Space perception -- Congresses
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Spatial behavior -- Congresses
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Spatial ability -- Congresses
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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Space perception
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Spatial ability
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Spatial behavior
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Allen, Gary L
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| ISBN |
1410609987 |
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9781410609984 |
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9780805842180 |
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0805842187 |
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