Nathan Gale

TL;DR: The anchor-point hypothesis of spatial cognition, according to which primary nodes or reference points anchor distinct regions in cognitive space, brings together certain frequently reported apparent properties of mental maps: the regionalization and hierarchical organization of cognitive space as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Record of experience had little effect on recognition performance; however, navigation performance following five video trials was inferior and approximated that of children with only one trial of field experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how information obtained by learning two separate but partially overlapping routes in a relatively unfamiliar environment is integrated to provide locational, directional, and layout information about environmental features.

TL;DR: The concept of spatial familiarity is a natural language concept that has no well-defined technical interpretation as discussed by the authors, and it is defined in terms of four dimensions: locational knowledge, visual recognition, name identification, and interaction frequency.

TL;DR: Field experiments using an unfamiliar suburban neighborhood and a subject population of 9- to 12-year-old children whose activity spaces are most highly oriented to the neighborhood level indicate that this subject group found it difficult to integrate knowledge acquired from the two separate but partia...