Spatial Cognition VII, International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2010, Mt. Hood/Portland, OR, USA, August 15-19, 2010. Proceedings

Invited Talks.- Individual Differences in Spatial Language and Way-Finding: The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Motivation.- CogSketch: Sketch Understanding for Cognitive Science Research and for Education.- The Refraction of Space: A Radical Reversal of Direction.- Distance and Time.- Investigating the Role of Goals and Environmental Structure on Memory for Distance and Time in Virtual Environments.- The Spatial and Temporal Underpinnings of Social Distance.- Navigation.- The Role of Slope in Human Reorientation.- Influence of Geometry and Objects on Local Route Choices during Wayfinding.- Testing Landmark Identification Theories in Virtual Environments.- Men to the East and Women to the Right: Wayfinding with Verbal Route Instructions.- Science Education and Spatial Skill.- Do All Science Disciplines Rely on Spatial Abilities? Preliminary Evidence from Self-report Questionnaires.- Gestures in Geology: The Roles of Spatial Skills, Expertise, and Communicative Context.- Using Analogical Mapping to Assess the Affordances of Scale Models Used in Earth and Environmental Science Education.- Language.- Aligning Spatial Perspective in Route Descriptions.- The Role of Grammatical Aspect in the Dynamics of Spatial Descriptions.- Implicit Spatial Length Modulates Time Estimates, But Not Vice Versa.- Computational Modelling.- Bio-inspired Architecture for Active Sensorimotor Localization.- Color Binding in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory.- Reference Frames.- Human EEG Correlates of Spatial Navigation within Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames.- Putting Egocentric and Allocentric into Perspective.- Reference Frames Influence Spatial Memory Development within and Across Sensory Modalities.- Do We Need to Walk for Effective Virtual Reality Navigation? Physical Rotations Alone May Suffice.- Visual Attention in Spatial Reasoning.- Eye Movements Reflect Reasoning with Mental Images but Not with Mental Models in Orientation Knowledge Tasks.- An Eye-Tracking Study of Integrative Spatial Cognition over Diagrammatic Representations.- Maps and Assistance.- Enriching Spatial Knowledge through a Multiattribute Locational System.- Interactive Assistance for Tour Planning.- Verbally Annotated Tactile Maps - Challenges and Approaches.- Generating Adaptive Route Instructions Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning.- Language, Neuroscience and Education.- Can Mirror-Reading Reverse the Flow of Time?.