Cognitive Navigation: Toward a biological basis for instructional design

Learning is like navigation in space. Human declarative learning has a spatial navigation basis. The evidence for this comes from animal navigation research and human brain studies. The two forms of navigation correspond to two forms of declarative memory and this has implications for instructional design.

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