TY - BOOK ID - 85643180 TI - The Cambridge handbook of visuospatial thinking AU - Shah, Priti AU - Miyake, Akira PY - 2005 SN - 1316038017 0511610440 131645035X 0521807107 0521001730 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mental representation. KW - Space perception. KW - Imagery (Psychology) KW - Visualization. KW - Thought and thinking. KW - Mind KW - Thinking KW - Thoughts KW - Educational psychology KW - Philosophy KW - Psychology KW - Intellect KW - Logic KW - Perception KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Self KW - Visualisation KW - Imagination KW - Visual perception KW - Imagery, Mental KW - Images, Mental KW - Mental imagery KW - Mental images KW - Visualization KW - Spatial perception KW - Spatial behavior KW - Figure-ground perception KW - Geographical perception KW - Representation, Mental KW - Abstraction KW - Health Sciences KW - Psychiatry & Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85643180 AB - 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. ER -