The Development of Spatial Cognition

"The book is aimed at the specialist or the researcher/theorist who wishes to grapple with many of the contemporary ideas and findings in a domain of functioning with deep philosophical and psychological roots....will reward the interested reader."
—Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography

PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1. What's So Special About Spatial Cognition? PART II: SETTING THE STAGE 2. Spatial Cognition on Nonspatial Tasks: Finding Spatial Knowledge When You Are Not Looking For It 3. Representing and Manipulating Spatial Information from Different Environments: Models to Neighborhoods 4. The Environments of Children: From Home to School PART Ill: SPECIFIC ACE CROUPS 5. Coordinating Perspectives on Infant Spatial Orientation 6. Adults' Memory Representations of the Spatial Properties of their Everyday Physical Environment 7. A Roadmap to Research for Spatial Cognition in the Elderly Adult PART IV: SPECIAL VARIABLES 8. The Role of Activity in Spatial Cognition 9. Spatial Cognition as a Function of Environmental Characteristics 10. The Social Cognition of Spatial Cognition: Regulating Personal Boundaries PART V: METHODOLOGICAL AND META-METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 11. Methods for the Study of Spatial Cognition 12. Strengthening Weak links in the Study of the Development of Macrospatial Cognition 13. The Representation of Space: Its Development in Children and in Cartography 14. The Symbolizing and Symbolized Child in the Enterprise of Cognitive Mapping

Robert Cohen Memphis State University