Spatial Cognition, Spatial Perception: Mapping the Self and Space

by Edited by Francine L. Dolins , Robert W. Mitchell

• ISBN13: 9780521845052
• ISBN10: 052184505X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Spatial cognition is discussed in relation to the internal mapping of external stimuli (e.g. landmarks and sensory perception of environmental information), the internal mapping of internally perceived stimuli (e.g. kinesthetic and visual imagery), and their subsequent effects on behavior. The diverse ways in which spatial information is encapsulated in perceptual and cognitive processes, allowing the self to move in space, are then examined. Major points and controversies in human and non-human animal spatial cognition, spatial perception, and landmark recognition are discussed comparatively within an evolutionary framework. Written for postgraduate students and researchers, the authors present theoretical and experimental accounts at multiple levels of analysis-perceptual, behavioral, developmental, and cognitive-providing a through review of the processes of spatial cognition. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Linking spatial cognition and spatial perception	p. 1
Postscript, Some terms and concepts used in the discussion of spatial cognition and perception	p. 19
What do animals know and how do they represent external space?	p. 33
Psychology and the philosophy of spatial perception: a history, or how the idea of spatial cognition in animals developed	p. 35
Common principles shared by spatial and other kinds of cognition	p. 54
To be buried in thought, lost in space, or lost in action: is that the question?	p. 75
Perception and memory of landmarks: implications for spatial behavior and cognition	p. 97
The encoding of geometry in various vertebrate species	p. 99
The visually guided routes of ants	p. 117
The role of landmarks in small-and large-scale navigation	p. 152
Examining spatial cognitive strategies in small-scale and large-scale space in tamarin monkeys	p. 180
Spatial learning and foraging in macaques	p. 197
Evolutionary perspectives on cognitive capacities in spatial perception and object recognition	p. 211
The evolution of human spatial cognition	p. 213
Egocentric and allocentric spatial learning in the nonhuman primate	p. 237
Does echolocation make understanding object permanence unnecessary? Failure to find object permanence understanding in dolphins and beluga whales	p. 258
Multimodal sensory integration and concurrent navigation strategies for spatial cognition in real and artificial organisms	p. 281
Does mapping of the body generate understanding of external space?	p. 321
Movement: the generative source of spatial perception and spatial cognition	p. 323
Understanding the body: spatial perception and spatial cognition	p. 341
The evolution of parietal areas involved in hand use in primates	p. 365
Body mapping and spatial transformations	p. 422
"Understanding" of external space generated by bodily re-mapping: an insight from the neurophysiology of tool-using monkeys	p. 439
Left-right spatial discrimination and the evolution of hemispheric specialization: some new thoughts on some old ideas	p. 456
Comparisons of human and nonhuman primate spatial cognitive abilities	p. 475
The geographical imagination	p. 477
Of chimps and children: use of spatial symbols by two species	p. 486
Chimpanzee spatial skills: a model for human performance on scale model tasks?	p. 502
The development of place learning in comparative perspective	p. 520
Spatial cognition and memory in symbol-using chimpanzees	p. 539
Index	p. 565
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