# Spatial Cognition and Navigation

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/spatial-cognition-and-navigation/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Description | This cluster of papers explores the importance of spatial ability in STEM domains, focusing on topics such as mental rotation, wayfinding, gender differences in spatial cognition, cognitive maps, and the use of landmarks in navigation. It also delves into the impact of spatial training on mathematics performance and the neural correlates of spatial tasks. |
| Domain | Physical Sciences |
| Field | Engineering |
| OpenAlex ID | t11904 |
| Works | 70 |

## Topic papers all

Showing 15 of 70.

- [Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers](https://scholariq.org/papers/navigation-related-structural-change-in-the-hippocampi-of-taxi-drivers/)
- [The malleability of spatial skills: A meta-analysis of training studies.](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-malleability-of-spatial-skills-a-meta-analysis-of-training-studies/)
- [Clock Drawing in Alzheimer's Disease](https://scholariq.org/papers/clock-drawing-in-alzheimer-s-disease/)
- [Measuring Life‐Space Mobility in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults](https://scholariq.org/papers/measuring-life-space-mobility-in-community-dwelling-older-adults/)
- [Allocentric and Egocentric Spatial Representations: Definitions, Distinctions, and Interconnections](https://scholariq.org/papers/allocentric-and-egocentric-spatial-representations-definitions-distinctions-and/)
- [Nonvisual navigation by blind and sighted: Assessment of path integration ability.](https://scholariq.org/papers/nonvisual-navigation-by-blind-and-sighted-assessment-of-path-integration-ability-2/)
- [Nonvisual navigation by blind and sighted: Assessment of path integration ability.](https://scholariq.org/papers/nonvisual-navigation-by-blind-and-sighted-assessment-of-path-integration-ability/)
- [Spatial Updating of Self-Position and Orientation During Real, Imagined, and Virtual Locomotion](https://scholariq.org/papers/spatial-updating-of-self-position-and-orientation-during-real-imagined-and/)
- [Evidence for two types of spatial representations: Hemispheric specialization for categorical and coordinate relations.](https://scholariq.org/papers/evidence-for-two-types-of-spatial-representations-hemispheric-specialization-for/)
- [Evidence for two types of spatial representations: Hemispheric specialization for categorical and coordinate relations.](https://scholariq.org/papers/evidence-for-two-types-of-spatial-representations-hemispheric-specialization-for-2/)
- [Luminance and spatial attention effects on early visual processing](https://scholariq.org/papers/luminance-and-spatial-attention-effects-on-early-visual-processing/)
- [Absence of regional hemispheric volume asymmetries in first-episode schizophrenia](https://scholariq.org/papers/absence-of-regional-hemispheric-volume-asymmetries-in-first-episode/)
- [Functional anatomy of visuo-spatial working memory during mental rotation is influenced by sex, menstrual cycle, and sex steroid hormones](https://scholariq.org/papers/functional-anatomy-of-visuo-spatial-working-memory-during-mental-rotation-is/)
- [Dynamic Changes in Brain Activity during Prism Adaptation](https://scholariq.org/papers/dynamic-changes-in-brain-activity-during-prism-adaptation/)
- [A comparison of egocentric and allocentric spatial memory in a patient with selective hippocampal damage](https://scholariq.org/papers/a-comparison-of-egocentric-and-allocentric-spatial-memory-in-a-patient-with/)

## Topic primary papers

Showing 15 of 24.

- [The malleability of spatial skills: A meta-analysis of training studies.](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-malleability-of-spatial-skills-a-meta-analysis-of-training-studies/)
- [Allocentric and Egocentric Spatial Representations: Definitions, Distinctions, and Interconnections](https://scholariq.org/papers/allocentric-and-egocentric-spatial-representations-definitions-distinctions-and/)
- [Spatial Updating of Self-Position and Orientation During Real, Imagined, and Virtual Locomotion](https://scholariq.org/papers/spatial-updating-of-self-position-and-orientation-during-real-imagined-and/)
- [Evidence for two types of spatial representations: Hemispheric specialization for categorical and coordinate relations.](https://scholariq.org/papers/evidence-for-two-types-of-spatial-representations-hemispheric-specialization-for/)
- [Functional anatomy of visuo-spatial working memory during mental rotation is influenced by sex, menstrual cycle, and sex steroid hormones](https://scholariq.org/papers/functional-anatomy-of-visuo-spatial-working-memory-during-mental-rotation-is/)
- [Age Differences in Imagery Abilities](https://scholariq.org/papers/age-differences-in-imagery-abilities-2/)
- [Age Differences in Imagery Abilities](https://scholariq.org/papers/age-differences-in-imagery-abilities/)
- [Improving and analyzing signage within a healthcare setting](https://scholariq.org/papers/improving-and-analyzing-signage-within-a-healthcare-setting/)
- [Spatial knowledge and firefighters’ wayfinding performance: A virtual reality search and rescue experiment](https://scholariq.org/papers/spatial-knowledge-and-firefighters-wayfinding-performance-a-virtual-reality/)
- [Having a Male Co-Twin Masculinizes Mental Rotation Performance in Females](https://scholariq.org/papers/having-a-male-co-twin-masculinizes-mental-rotation-performance-in-females/)
- [Developing spatial visualization and mental rotation with a digital puzzle game at primary school level](https://scholariq.org/papers/developing-spatial-visualization-and-mental-rotation-with-a-digital-puzzle-game/)
- [Developmental sex differences in basic visuospatial processing: Differences in strategy use?](https://scholariq.org/papers/developmental-sex-differences-in-basic-visuospatial-processing-differences-in/)
- [Spatial Skills Training in Introductory Computing](https://scholariq.org/papers/spatial-skills-training-in-introductory-computing/)
- [Cognitive characteristics in firefighter wayfinding Tasks: An Eye-Tracking analysis](https://scholariq.org/papers/cognitive-characteristics-in-firefighter-wayfinding-tasks-an-eye-tracking/)
- [Visuo-spatial ability in colonoscopy simulator training](https://scholariq.org/papers/visuo-spatial-ability-in-colonoscopy-simulator-training/)

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