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Spatial Minds

Author : Irena Zovko Dinković
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527523713
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Minds written by Irena Zovko Dinković and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many human experiences are interpreted with the help of spatial concepts, which is why spatial language is prevalent in every aspect of human life. However, to what extent is spatial language connected to spatial conceptualization? Has this conceptualization altered due to global communication and new technologies, becoming more similar across languages? This book investigates the similarities and differences between conceptual and morphological spatial categories in three different languages: namely, Hungarian, Croatian and English. To this end, a set of concepts of nine basic spatial expressions involving the prepositions in, on and at is analyzed both morphologically and psycholinguistically, in order to shed light on their mutual relationship in language and in the mind. The research is presented in a clear and simple manner, making the book accessible to students of linguistics and language enthusiasts, and providing a concise introduction to the basic tenets of various approaches to spatial language.

Human Spatial Cognition and Experience

Author : Toru Ishikawa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351251287
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Human Spatial Cognition and Experience written by Toru Ishikawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. We live in space and space surrounds us. We interact with space all the time, consciously or unconsciously, and make decisions and actions based on our perceptions of that space. Have you ever wondered how some people navigate perfectly using maps in their heads while other people get lost even with a physical map? What do you mean when you say you have a poor "sense of direction"? How do we know where we are? How do we use and represent information about space? This book clarifies that our knowledge and feelings emerge as a consequence of our interactions with the surrounding space, and show that the knowledge and feelings direct, guide, or limit our spatial behavior and experience. Space matters, or more specifically space we perceive matters. Research into spatial cognition and experience, asking fundamental questions about how and why space and spatiality matters to humans, has thus attracted attention. It is no coincidence that the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for research into a positioning system in the brain or "inner GPS" and that spatial information and technology are recognized as an important social infrastructure in recent years. This is the first book aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students pursuing this fascinating area of research. The content introduces the reader to the field of spatial cognition and experience with a series of chapters covering theoretical, empirical, and practical issues, including cognitive maps, spatial orientation, spatial ability and thinking, geospatial information, navigation assistance, and environmental aesthetics.

Visual/Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling and Movement

Author : Serena Wieder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578111285
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Visual/Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling and Movement written by Serena Wieder and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical psychologist Serena Wieder Ph.D. redefines the building blocks of development and the challenges that derail a child's functioning and learning. For Wieder, vision and space -- what is seen by the eyes, transformed by the mind and experienced as movement, plays a crucial but heretofore underestimated crucial role in the development of a child's thoughts and feelings. Co-author Harry Wachs, O.D., a pioneer of developmental vision therapy, offers therapy focused on visual/spatial aspects of development supporting cognition. Based on decades of experience, Wieder and Wachs guide therapists and parents in interventions for use at home, school and therapy offices involving affect based Floortime approaches and other problem-solving experiences, addressing unrecognized challenges that often derail life competencies, learning and development. A new step-by-step Manual presents tools to develop visual/spatial learning. This groundbreaking book changes the way parents and therapists understand child development and work to promote each child's potential in meaningful ways.

Spatial Representation

Author : Barbara Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195385373
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Representation written by Barbara Landau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite our impression of a seamless spatial world, mature human spatial knowledge is composed of sub-systems, each specialized. This book uses the case of Williams syndrome — a rare genetic deficit - to argue for specialization of function in both normal and unusual development. The evidence suggests a speculative hypothesis linking the genetic deficit to changes in the timing of emergence for different sub-systems. More broadly, the book shows the complexity of spatial cognition, its genetic correlates, and realization in the brain.

Space in Mind

Author : Daniel R. Montello
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028298
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Space in Mind written by Daniel R. Montello and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current "spatial turn" in many disciplines reflects an emerging scholarly interest in space and spatiality as central components in understanding the natural and cultural worlds. In Space in Mind, leading researchers from a range of disciplines examine the implications of research on spatial thinking and reasoning for education and learning. Their contributions suggest ways in which recent work in such fields as spatial cognition, geographic information systems, linguistics, artifical intelligence, architecture, and data visualization can inform spatial approaches to learning and education. After addressing the conceptual foundations of spatial thinking for education and learning, the book considers visualization, both external (for example, diagrams and maps) and internal (imagery and other mental spatial representations); embodied cognition and spatial understanding; and the development of specific spatial curricula and literacies. -- from dust jacket.

Mind in Motion

Author : Barbara Tversky
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093078
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Mind in Motion written by Barbara Tversky and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words. In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas. Spatial thinking even underlies the structure and meaning of language: why we say we push ideas forward or tear them apart, why we're feeling up or have grown far apart. Like Thinking, Fast and Slow before it, Mind in Motion gives us a new way to think about how--and where--thinking takes place.

Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts

Author : Sandra Lach Arlinghaus
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351803905
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts written by Sandra Lach Arlinghaus and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts: Maps, Archives, and Timelines cultivates the spatial thinking "habit of mind" as a critical geographical view of how the world works, including how environmental systems function, and how we can approach and solve environmental problems using maps, archives, and timelines. The work explains why spatial thinking matters as it helps readers to integrate a variety of methods to describe and analyze spatial/temporal events and phenomena in disparate environmental contexts. It weaves together maps, GIS, timelines, and storytelling as important strategies in examining concepts and procedures in analyzing real-world data and relationships. The work thus adds significant value to qualitative and quantitative research in environmental (and related) sciences. Features Written by internationally renowned experts known for taking complex ideas and finding accessible ways to more broadly understand and communicate them. Includes real-world studies explaining the merging of disparate data in a sensible manner, understandable across several disciplines. Unique approach to spatial thinking involving animated maps, 3D maps, GEOMATs, and story maps to integrate maps, archives, and timelines—first across a single environmental example and then through varied examples. Merges spatial and temporal views on a broad range of environmental issues from traditional environmental topics to more unusual ones involving urban studies, medicine, municipal/governmental application, and citizen-scientist topics. Provides easy to follow step-by-step instructions to complete tasks; no prior experience in data processing is needed.

The Emerging Spatial Mind

Author : Jodie M. Plumert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195345940
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Emerging Spatial Mind written by Jodie M. Plumert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the spatial mind develop? In this book, Jodie Plumert and John Spencer bring together the leading researchers from the field of spatial cognitive development to examine how the spatial mind emerges from its humble origins in infancy and becomes its mature, flexible, and skilled adult form. The work presented sheds light on how the emerging spatial mind is fostered and shaped over time by our experiences of thinking about and interacting in the space around us. Each chapter presents cutting-edge research and theory that addresses the two pivotal questions of what changes in the spatial mind, and how these changes come about. The authors provide both conceptual and formal theoretical accounts of developmental process at multiple levels of analysis--genes, neurons, behaviors, social interactions--creating a contemporary overview of the general mechanisms of cognitive change. Commentary chapters show how the developmental advances discussed in these accounts fit into our understanding of not only spatial cognitive development, but also spatial cognition more generally.

Spatial Puzzles

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781488906930
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Puzzles written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take control of your mental workout with Mindworks Brain Training puzzle books! Unlike other puzzle collections, these books are designed by teams of experts to stimulate specific areas of the brain and target the associated mental processes. Each book includes over 125 full-colour puzzles and solutions with comprehensive explanations, as well as difficulty ratings and suggested time limits for each puzzle, so that you can easily find a puzzle to suit your current level and progress as your mental agility increases. These books allow you to train your brain exactly the way you want to!

Hands On, Minds On

Author : Claire E. Cameron
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807759090
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Hands On, Minds On written by Claire E. Cameron and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hands On, Minds On describes the importance of childrens foundational cognitive skills for academic achievement in literacy and mathematics, as well as their connections with other areas of school readiness, including physical health and social and emotional development. It also examines the growing evidence in favor of guided object play.

Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking

Author : Michel Denis
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135430934
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking written by Michel Denis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking discusses the remarkable human ability to use mental imagery in everyday life: from helping plan actions and routes to aiding creative thinking; from making sense of and remembering our immediate environment to generating pictures in our minds from verbal descriptions of scenes or people. The book also considers the important theme of how individuals differ in their ability to use imagery. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in cognitive psychology, cognitive science and cognitive neuropsychology.

Learning to Think Spatially

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309092086
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Think Spatially written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to Think Spatially examines how spatial thinking might be incorporated into existing standards-based instruction across the school curriculum. Spatial thinking must be recognized as a fundamental part of Kâ€"12 education and as an integrator and a facilitator for problem solving across the curriculum. With advances in computing technologies and the increasing availability of geospatial data, spatial thinking will play a significant role in the information-based economy of the twenty-first century. Using appropriately designed support systems tailored to the Kâ€"12 context, spatial thinking can be taught formally to all students. A geographic information system (GIS) offers one example of a high-technology support system that can enable students and teachers to practice and apply spatial thinking in many areas of the curriculum.

Why People Get Lost

Author : Paul A. Dudchenko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199210861
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Why People Get Lost written by Paul A. Dudchenko and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some point in our lives, most of us have been lost. How does this happen? What are the limits of our ability to find our way? Do we have an innate sense of direction? 'How people get lost' reviews the psychology and neuroscience of navigation. It starts with a history of studies looking at how organisms solve mazes. It then reviews contemporary studies of spatial cognition, and the wayfinding abilities of adults and children. It then considers how specific parts of the brain provide a cognitive map and a neural compass. This book also considers the neurology of spatial disorientation, and the tendency of patients with Alzheimer's disease to lose their way. Within the book, the author considers that, perhaps we get lost simply because our brain's compass becomes misoriented. This book is written for anyone with an interest in navigation and the brain. It assumes no specialised knowledge of neuroscience, but covers recent advances in our understanding of how the brain represents space.

Making Space

Author : Nora Newcombe
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262640503
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Making Space written by Nora Newcombe and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for an interactionist approach to spatial development that incorporates and integrates essential insights of the Piaget, Nativist, and Vygotskyan approaches.

The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking

Author : Priti Shah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521807104
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking written by Priti Shah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Spatial Cognition

Author : Joan Stiles-Davis
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317717597
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Cognition written by Joan Stiles-Davis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the ways humans perceive, interpret, remember, and interact with events occurring in space, this book focuses on two aspects of spatial cognition: How does spatial cognition develop? What is the relation between spatial cognition and the brain? This book offers a unique opportunity to share the combined efforts of scientists from varied disciplines, including cognitive and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, behavioral neurology, and neurobiology in the process of interacting and exchanging ideas. Based on a conference held at the Neuroscience Conference Center of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, this book explores current scientific trends seeking a biological basis for understanding the relationships among brain, mind, and behavior.

STEM THINKING SKILLS in Spatial Relation and Spatial Ability

Author : Srini Chelimilla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781697408843
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book STEM THINKING SKILLS in Spatial Relation and Spatial Ability written by Srini Chelimilla and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial ability is becoming increasingly important with the development of new technologies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM). Ability to understand organization of objects in space and applying spatial reasoning are becoming important for success in solving many tasks in everyday life. "STEM Thinking in Spatial Relation and Spatial Ability" provide a solid foundation to fundamental skills. This book helps to: - Improve the ability to deduce relationships between mechanical parts (Mechanical Reasoning).- Improve the ability to visualize 2-D figures and better understand 3 dimensional spatial visualization (Spatial Relational Thinking )- Improve the ability to find logical relationships in figure patterns (Abstract Reasoning)This book covers: SPATIAL ABILITY - MECHANICAL REASONING(40 Questions)Three-Dimensional SPATIAL RELATIONAL THINKING(35 Questions)Two-dimensional SPATIAL RELATIONAL THINKING(30 Questions)SPATIAL THINKING - ABSTRACT REASONING(30 Questions)SPATIAL ABILITY - RELATIONAL THINKING(5 Questions)ONE FULL LENGTH PRACTICE TEST with Answers (20 Questions)