Spatial Cognition X : 13th Biennial Conference, KogWis 2016, Bremen, Germany, September 26–30, 2016, and 10th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2016, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2–5, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Annotation This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference, KogWis 2016, held in Bremen, Germany, in September 2016, and the 10th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2016, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in August 2016. The 11 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 20 submissions. They focus on the following topics: spatial ability; wayfinding and navigation; spatial memory; and systems and simulations Front Matter ....Pages I-X Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Individual and Gender Differences in Spatial Ability and Three Forms of Engineering Self-efficacy (Meredith Minear, Leonard Lutz, Nathan Clements, Mikaela Cowen)....Pages 3-18 Physical Touch-Based Rotation Processes of Primary School Students (Sven Bertel, Stefanie Wetzel, Steffi Zander)....Pages 19-37 Can You Follow Your Own Route Directions: How Familiarity and Spatial Abilities Influence Spatial Performance and Sketch Maps (Rui Li, Vanessa Joy A. Anacta, Angela Schwering)....Pages 38-52 Front Matter ....Pages 53-53 Are Wayfinding Self-efficacy and Pleasure in Exploring Related to Shortcut Finding? A Study in a Virtual Environment (Francesca Pazzaglia, Chiara Meneghetti, Enia Labate, Lucia Ronconi)....Pages 55-68 Evaluating Age-Related Cognitive Map Decay Using a Novel Time-Delayed Testing Paradigm (Christopher R. Bennett, Nicholas A. Giudice)....Pages 69-85 Is Order Memory of Routes Temporal or Spatial? An Individual Differences Study (Ineke J. M. van der Ham, Suze de Zeeuw, Merel Braspenning)....Pages 86-101 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 The Difference in Cognitive Processing Between Route and Survey Descriptions Used by Visuo-Spatial Working Memory (Hironori Oto)....Pages 105-117 Psychophysics of Place Recognition (Hanspeter A. Mallot, Stephan Lancier, Marc Halfmann)....Pages 118-136 Environmental and Idiothetic Cues to Reference Frame Selection in Path Integration (Qiliang He, Timothy P. McNamara, Jonathan W. Kelly)....Pages 137-156 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 EVE: A Framework for Experiments in Virtual Environments (Jascha Grübel, Raphael Weibel, Mike Hao Jiang, Christoph Hölscher, Daniel A. Hackman, Victor R. Schinazi)....Pages 159-176 Multimodal Semantic Simulations of Linguistically Underspecified Motion Events (Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky)....Pages 177-197 Back Matter ....Pages 199-199