Priti Shah / Akira Miyake (eds.)

The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking

Herausgeber: Miyake, Akira; Shah, Priti

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 2005, presents an in-depth coverage of visuospatial thinking, encompassing a wide range of thinking processes concerning space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 580
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 980g
• ISBN-13: 9780521807104
• ISBN-10: 0521807107
• Artikelnr.: 21658484

Autorenporträt

Akira Miyake is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Science. He has published in the areas of working memory, executive functions, language comprehension and spatial thinking in such journals as Cognitive Psychology and Journal of Memory and Language.
Priti Shah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has published in the areas of spatial thinking, graphical display comprehension and working memory in such journals as Memory & Cognition, the Journal of Educational Psychology and Science Education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Functional significance of visuospatial representations Barbara Tversky;
2. Visuospatial images Daniel Reisberg and Friderike Heuer; 3. Disorders of
visuospatial working memory Robert Logie and Sergio Della Sala; 4.
Individual differences in spatial abilities Mary Hegarty and David Waller;
5. Sex differences in visuospatial abilities: more than meets the eye Diane
F. Halpern and Marcia L. Collear; 6. Development of spatial competence Nora
S. Newcombe and Amy E. Learmonth; 7. Navigation Daniel R. Montello; 8.
Mapping the understanding of understanding maps Holly A. Taylor; 9. Spatial
situation models Mike Rinck; 10. Design applications of visual spatial
thinking: the importance of frame of reference Christopher D. Wickens,
Michele Vincow and Michele Yeh; 11. The presentation and comprehension of
graphically-presented data Priti Shah, Eric G. Freedman and Ioanna Vekiri;
12. Multimedia learning: guiding visuospatial thinking with instructional
animation Richard E. Mayer.