The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

Visuospatial thinking encompasses a wide range of thinking processes concerning space, whether it be navigating across town, understanding multimedia displays, reading an architectural blueprint or a map. Understanding it and in particular, how people represent and process visual and spatial information, is relevant not only to cognitive psychology but also education, geography, architecture, medicine, design, computer science/artificial intelligence, semiotics and animal cognition. This book presents a broad overview of research that can be applied to basic theoretical and applied/naturalistic contexts. The Goal Of This Book Is To Present A Broad Overview Of Research On Visuospatial Thinking That Can Be Used By Researchers As Well As Students Interested In This Topic In Both Basic Research And Applied/naturalistic Contexts.--jacket. Functional Significance Of Visuospatial Representations / Barbara Tversky -- Visuospatial Images / Daniel Reisberg And Friderike Heuer -- Disorders Of Visuo Spatial Working Memory / Robert Logie And Sergio Della Sala -- Individual Differences In Spatial Abilities / Mary Hegarty And David Waller -- Sex Differences In Visuospatial Abilities: More Than Meets The Eye / Diane F. Halpern And Marcia L. Collear -- Development Of Spatial Competence / Nora S. Newcombe And Amy E. Learmonth -- Navigation / Daniel R. Montello -- Mapping The Understanding Of Understanding Maps / Holly A. Taylor -- Spatial Situation Models / Mike Rinck -- Design Applications Of Visual Spatial Thinking: The Importance Of Frame Of Reference / Christopher D. Wickens, Michele Vincow, Michele Yeh -- Comprehension Of Quantitative Information In Graphical Displays / Priti Shah, Eric G. Freedman, Ioanna Vekiri -- Multimedia Learning: Guiding Visuospatial Thinking With Instructional Animation / Richard E. Mayer. Edited By Priti Shah & Akira Miyake. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. The ability to navigate across town, comprehend an animated display of the functioning of the human heart, view complex multivariate data on a company's website, or to read an architectural blueprint and form a three-dimensional mental picture of a house are all tasks involving visuospatial thinking. The field of visuospatial thinking is a relatively diverse interdisciplinary research enterprise. An understanding of visuospatial thinking, and in particular, how people represent and process visual and spatial information, is relevant not only to cognitive psychology but also education, geography, architecture, medicine, design computer science/artificial intelligence, semiotics and animal cognition. The goal of this book, first published in 2005, is to present a broad overview of research on visuospatial thinking that can be used by researchers as well as students interested in this topic in both basic research and applied/naturalistic contexts This handbook presents an in-depth coverage of visuospatial thinking, which encompasses a wide range of thinking processes concerning space: navigating across town, understanding multimedia displays, reading an architectural blueprint or a map. In a single volume, the handbook presents an overview of basic and applied research on visuospatial thinking - how people differ on visuospatial abilities, how people perform complex visuospatial thinking tasks and how to use what we know about visuospatial thinking in applied contexts, such as map .. This handbook, first published in 2005, presents an overview of basic and applied research on visuospatial thinking - how people differ on visuospatial abilities, how people perform complex visuospatial thinking tasks and how to use what we know about visuospatial thinking in applied contexts, such as map reading and multimedia design.