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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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Bastien, Kevin; Muckle, Gina; Ayotte, Pierre; Courtemanche, Yohann; Dodge, Neil C.; Jacobson, Joseph L.; Jacobson, Sandra W.; Saint-Amour, Dave – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022
Inuit communities in Northern Quebec (Canada) are exposed to environmental contaminants, particularly to mercury, lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Previous studies reported adverse associations between these neurotoxicants and memory performance. Here we aimed to determine the associations of pre- and postnatal exposures to mercury, lead…
Descriptors: Eskimos, Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Hazardous Materials
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Lei, Xuehui; Mou, Weimin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
This study examined functions of self-motion and visual cues in updating people's actual headings in multiscale spaces. In an immersive virtual environment, the participants learned objects' locations inside two misaligned rectangular rooms by locomoting within and between the rooms. In each testing trial, the participants locomoted to adopt an…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Stimuli, Motion, Navigation
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Jia Liu; Avinash Kumar Singh; Anna Wunderlich; Klaus Gramann; Chin-Teng Lin – npj Science of Learning, 2022
Although beacon- and map-based spatial strategies are the default strategies for navigation activities, today's navigational aids mostly follow a beacon-based design where one is provided with turn-by-turn instructions. Recent research, however, shows that our reliance on these navigational aids is causing a decline in our spatial skills. We are…
Descriptors: Navigation, Physical Environment, Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation
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Anacta, Vanessa Joy A. – Journal of Geography, 2020
This article investigated an outdoor wayfinding performance following absolute and relative verbal route instructions. Participants were divided into two groups. Each group received two types of instructions that started in one frame of reference and shifted to another reference frame. Results showed that participants in both groups had difficulty…
Descriptors: Navigation, Maps, Verbal Communication, Spatial Ability
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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
Harris, Danielle; Logan, Tracy; Lowrie, Tom – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
"Location and Transformation" skills are critical tools for navigating the world and establishing foundational steps for geometric reasoning associated with co-ordinate grids and the Cartesian plane. The contextual nature of using local landmarks to understand students' mental representation of large-scale space has the potential to…
Descriptors: Navigation, Geometry, Geographic Concepts, Geographic Location
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Lei, Xuehui; Mou, Weimin; Zhang, Lei – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
This study investigated the extent to which people can develop a global representation of local environments through across-boundary navigation. Participants learned objects' locations in two misaligned rectangular rooms in an immersive virtual environment. After learning, they adopted a local view in one room and judged directions of objects…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Computer Simulation, Navigation, Learning Processes
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Kim, Kevin Gonyop; Oertel, Catharine; Dillenbourg, Pierre – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: Exploring the design space is an important process in a design task. In this study, we considered design space exploration for the learners in vocational education and training (VET). The goal of the study was to investigate how they explore the design space while focusing on the effect of a graph-like interface on the learner's…
Descriptors: Floriculture, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Courseware
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Dag, Nilgün; Aksoy, Bülent; Arslantas, Halis Adnan – Review of International Geographical Education, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine the awareness of primary teachers about the teaching of location and direction concepts. The study was designed according to a qualitative research model, and the data was collected through a semi-structured interview form developed by researchers consisting of open-ended questions. The study group consisted…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Geographic Concepts, Concept Teaching
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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
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Aumont, Étienne; Blanchette, Caroll-Ann; Bohbot, Veronique D.; West, Greg L. – Learning & Memory, 2019
When people navigate, they use strategies dependent on one of two memory systems. The hippocampus-based spatial strategy consists of using multiple landmarks to create a cognitive map of the environment. In contrast, the caudate nucleus-based response strategy is based on the memorization of a series of turns. Importantly, response learners…
Descriptors: Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Memorization, Navigation
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Yigit, Turan; Karatekin, Kadir – Review of International Geographical Education, 2021
Spatial thinking skills are competencies individuals will need in their lives in order to know and understand the world and to perceive the space correctly. In order for individuals to have these competencies, effective training in the development of spatial thinking skills should occur. Spatial thinking skills can be acquired through…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning
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Cooperrider, Kensy; Slotta, James; Núñez, Rafael – Cognitive Science, 2017
Speakers of many languages around the world rely on body-based contrasts (e.g., "left/right") for spatial communication and cognition. Speakers of Yupno, a language of Papua New Guinea's mountainous interior, rely instead on an environment-based "uphill/downhill" contrast. Body-based contrasts are as easy to use indoors as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Topography, Concept Mapping, Physical Environment
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Huang, Zhenzhen; Hu, Qingfen; Shao, Yi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Previous research in spatial reorientation, which only presented the target location in the corner, has found that adults weighed angles more than wall lengths. We proposed that in previous research, angular cues were available for direct use whereas length cues had to be associated with the left/right sense. We thus investigated whether the…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Cues, Spatial Ability, Orientation
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