Toru Ishikawa

Human Spatial Cognition and Experience

Mind in the World, World in the Mind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers students an introduction to human spatial cognition and experience and is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who are interested in the study of maps in the head and the psychology of space.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780815369851
• ISBN-10: 0815369859
• Artikelnr.: 69938587

Autorenporträt

Toru Ishikawa is a Professor in the Department of Information Networking for Innovation and Design (INIAD) at Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan. He has a PhD in geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is an associate member of the Science Council of Japan. He specializes in cognitive-behavioral geography, geographic information science, and urban residential environments and planning. His research interests include cognitive maps and mapping, wayfinding and navigation, spatial thinking in geoscience, and geospatial awareness and technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of Figures List of Tables 1. Why Is Spatial Special? 2. Brief
History of Research into Spatial Cognition 3. Maps in the Head 4. The
Structure of Cognitive Maps 5. The Acquisition of Cognitive Maps 6. Spatial
Abilities and Individual Differences 7. Communicating Information about
Space 8. Development of Spatial Cognition in Children 9. Feelings about
Space 10. Space, Information, and Society References Index