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Alexis Topete; Chuanxiuyue He; Mary Hegarty – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
People navigate in various types of spaces, including indoor and outdoor environments. These differ in availability of navigational cues, such as distal landmarks, clear boundaries, and regular grid structures. Does learning the layout of different types of environments rely on the same or diverse cognitive abilities? Do separate measures of…
Descriptors: Navigation, Cognitive Ability, Adjustment (to Environment), Adults
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Jacob L. Lader; Kim V. Nguyen; Nora S. Newcombe – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
Even though successful navigation is vital for survival, individuals vary widely in their navigation skills. Researchers have examined the correlates of such variation using a wide variety of paradigms. However, we know little about the relation among the paradigms used, and their validity for real-world behaviors. In this study, we assessed 94…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Navigation, Spatial Ability, Factor Analysis
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Alexis Topete; Chuanxiuyue He; John Protzko; Jonathan Schooler; Mary Hegarty – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Given how commonly GPS is now used in everyday navigation, it is surprising how little research has been dedicated to investigating variations in its use and how such variations may relate to navigation ability. The present study investigated general GPS dependence, how people report using GPS in various navigational scenarios, and the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Navigation, Young Adults, Anxiety
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Tejaswini Dalvi; Kristen Wendell – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
Insights on students' own authentic design practices--nascent design practices without much adult guidance--are crucial to informing responsive facilitation of engineering design tasks. This study unpacks how elementary students interpret teacher given information about a design task, and interact with each other and given resources, to traverse a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Navigation, Engineering, Design
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Janina Bistron; Angela Schwering – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
School curricula as well as scientific literature emphasize the need of understanding how children navigate with maps. To date, however, there is no empirically validated assessment tool for analyzing navigational map reading competencies that can be used in map-based navigation tasks in the real-world. This paper fills this gap by presenting…
Descriptors: Map Skills, Educational Games, Elementary School Students, Spatial Ability
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Crystal Bae; Daniel Montello; Mary Hegarty – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Navigation is essential to life, and it is cognitively complex, drawing on abilities such as prospective and situated planning, spatial memory, location recognition, and real-time decision-making. In many cases, day-to-day navigation is embedded in a social context where cognition and behavior are shaped by others, but the great majority of…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Friendship, Individualism, Stranger Reactions
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Vanessa Joy A. Anacta – Research in Learning Technology, 2024
The use of navigation applications changed the way people find their way in an unfamiliar environment. A combination of maps, images and textual route instructions shown (or with audio) on one screen guides the user to the destination but may sometimes be overwhelming. This article investigated the spatial knowledge participants acquired after…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Maps, Visual Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Andrew Middleton – Higher Education Research and Development, 2025
Spatial fluency describes the ability and confidence of an individual to navigate and negotiate their experiences in a postdigital world. This paper reflects on teaching and learning experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and its aftermath, and on the volatile nature of social media, and the threats and opportunities afforded by AI. It…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Digital Literacy, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education
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Ignacio W. Loor; Wegner A. Muentes – Cogent Education, 2024
This study shows the potential of collaborative mapping as a pedagogical tool for cultivating spatial citizenship competencies among young students from peripheral urban spaces in Ecuador. Building on theories of spatial citizenship, the study postulates that an understanding and critical collaborative analysis of socio-spatial dynamics foster…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Adolescents, Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction