Cover of Wayfinding behavior

Book 1999

Wayfinding behavior

2 readers

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Published
1999
  • Human information processing
  • Animal behavior
  • Cognitive maps (Psychology)
  • Congresses
  • Spatial behavior
  • Spatial behavior in animals

This first section explores the strong theoretical and empirical links between cognitive maps (or the internal representation of environmental information), the cognitive mapping process itself, the internal manipulation of information in the form of spatial choice and decision making, and the directed acts of human wayfinding through simple or complex environments.