The Development of Spatial Cognition

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

Biography

Robert Cohen Memphis State University

"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