The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking [Paperback]

This book, first published in 2005, presents an in-depth coverage of visuospatial thinking, encompassing a wide range of thinking processes concerning space.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 reading and multimedia design.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 reading and multimedia design.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.1. Functional significance of visuospatial representations Barbara Tversky; 2. Vislµ