The Cambridge handbook of visuospatial thinking

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The Cambridge handbook of visuospatial thinking

Statement of responsibility

edited by Priti Shah & Akira Miyake

Contributor

• Shah, Priti, 1968-
• Miyake, Akira, 1966-

Editor

• Shah, Priti, 1968-
• Miyake, Akira, 1966-

Subject

• Thought and thinking
• Mental representation
• Space perception
• Visualization
• Imagery (Psychology)

Language

eng

Summary

The ability to navigate across town, comprehend an animated display of the functioning of the human heart, view complex multivariate data on a company's website, or to read an architectural blueprint and form a three-dimensional mental picture of a house are all tasks involving visuospatial thinking. The field of visuospatial thinking is a relatively diverse interdisciplinary research enterprise. An understanding of visuospatial thinking, 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. The goal of this book, first published in 2005, is to present a broad overview of research on visuospatial thinking that can be used by researchers as well as students interested in this topic in both basic research and applied/naturalistic contexts.--

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• Cambridge handbooks in psychology

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge handbooks in psychology
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks