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P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May20,2005 2:28 TheCambridgeHandbookofVisuospatialThinking Theabilitytonavigateacrosstown,comprehendananimateddisplay ofthefunctioningofthehumanheart,viewcomplexmultivariatedata onacompany’swebsite,orreadanarchitecturalblueprintandform athree-dimensionalmentalpictureofahousearealltasksinvolving visuospatialthinking.Thefieldofvisuospatialthinkingisarelatively diverseinterdisciplinaryresearchenterprise.Anunderstandingofvi- suospatialthinking,andinparticular,howpeoplerepresentandpro- cessvisualandspatialinformation,isrelevantnotonlytocognitive psychologybutalsotoeducation,geography,architecture,medicine, design, computer science/artificial intelligence, semiotics, and ani- mal cognition. The goal of this book is to present a broad overview ofresearchonvisuospatialthinkingthatcanbeusedbyresearchers aswellasstudentsinterestedinthistopicinbothbasicresearchand applied/naturalisticcontexts. PritiShahisAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofPsychologyat theUniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor.Shehaspublishedintheareas of spatial thinking, graphical display comprehension, and working memory, in such journals as the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, the Journal of EducationalPsychology,andScienceEducation. Akira Miyake is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychol- ogy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a Fellow of both American Psychological Association (Division 3: Experimental Psy- chology)andAmericanPsychologicalSociety.Hehaspublishedinthe areasofworkingmemory,executivefunctions,languagecomprehen- sion,andspatialthinkinginsuchjournalsasCognitivePsychologyand theJournalofMemoryandLanguage,andhasbeenservingasAssociate EditorfortheJournalofExperimentalPsychology:General. Akira Miyake and Priti Shah are co-editors of another Cambridge UniversityPressbook(publishedin1999),ModelsofWorkingMemory: MechanismsofActiveMaintenanceandExecutiveControl. i P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May20,2005 2:28 ii P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May20,2005 2:28 The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking Editedby PRITI SHAH & AKIRA MIYAKE iii P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May24,2005 15:33 cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress 40West20thStreet,NewYork,ny10011-4211,usa www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521807104 (cid:1)C CambridgeUniversityPress2005 Thisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2005 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData TheCambridgehandbookofvisuospatialthinking/editedby PritiShah,AkiraMiyake. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes. isbn0-521-80710-7(hardback)–isbn0-521-00173-0(pbk.) 1.Mentalrepresentation. 2.Spaceperception. 3.Imagery (Psychology) 4.Visualization. 5.Thoughtandthinking. I.Shah,Priti,1968– II.Miyake,Akira,1966– III.Title. bf316.6.c36 2005 (cid:2) 152.142–dc22 2004020365 isbn-13 978-0-521-80710-4hardback isbn-10 0-521-80710-7hardback isbn-13 978-0-521-00173-1paperback isbn-10 0-521-00173-0paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityfor thepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsforexternalor third-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhisbook anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch Websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. iv P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May20,2005 2:28 Contents ListofContributors pagevii Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii 1. FunctionalSignificanceofVisuospatialRepresentations 1 BarbaraTversky 2. VisuospatialImages 35 DanielReisberg&FriderikeHeuer 3. DisordersofVisuospatialWorkingMemory 81 RobertH.Logie&SergioDellaSala 4. IndividualDifferencesinSpatialAbilities 121 MaryHegarty&DavidA.Waller 5. SexDifferencesinVisuospatialAbilities:MoreThan MeetstheEye 170 DianeF.Halpern&MarciaL.Collaer 6. DevelopmentofSpatialCompetence 213 NoraS.Newcombe&AmyE.Learmonth 7. Navigation 257 DanielR.Montello 8. MappingtheUnderstandingofUnderstandingMaps 295 HollyA.Taylor 9. SpatialSituationModels 334 MikeRinck v P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May20,2005 2:28 vi Contents 10. DesignApplicationsofVisualSpatialThinking: TheImportanceofFrameofReference 383 ChristopherD.Wickens,MichelleVincow,&MichelleYeh 11. TheComprehensionofQuantitativeInformationin GraphicalDisplays 426 PritiShah,EricG.Freedman,&IoannaVekiri 12. MultimediaLearning:GuidingVisuospatialThinkingwith InstructionalAnimation 477 RichardE.Mayer AuthorIndex 509 SubjectIndex 531 P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May20,2005 2:28 List of Contributors MarciaL.Collaer MaryHegarty DepartmentofPsychology DepartmentofPsychology MiddleburyCollege UniversityofCalifornia,Santa Middlebury,VT05753 Barbara [email protected] SantaBarbara,CA93106 [email protected] SergioDellaSala DepartmentofPsychology,PPLS FriderikeHeuer UniversityofEdinburgh DepartmentofPsychology EdinburghEH89JZ Lewis&ClarkCollege Scotland,UnitedKingdom 615SWPalatineHillRd. [email protected] Portland,OR97219-7899 [email protected] EricG.Freedman DepartmentofPsychology AmyE.Learmonth UniversityofMichigan,Flint DepartmentofPsychology Flint,MI48502-1950 RutgersUniversity [email protected] 152FrelinghuysenRd. Piscataway,NJ08854-8020 DianeF.Halpern [email protected] BergerInstituteforWork,Family, andChildren RobertH.Logie ClaremontMcKennaCollege DepartmentofPsychology,PPLS 850ColumbiaAve. UniversityofEdinburgh Claremont,CA91711-6400 EdinburghEH89JZ Diane.Halpern Scotland,UnitedKingdom @claremontmckenna.edu [email protected] vii P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May24,2005 15:33 viii ListofContributors RichardE.Mayer PritiShah DepartmentofPsychology DepartmentofPsychology UniversityofCalifornia,Santa 525EastUniversity Barbara UniversityofMichigan SantaBarbara,CA93106 AnnArbor,MI48109–1109 [email protected] [email protected] AkiraMiyake DepartmentofPsychology HollyA.Taylor UniversityofColoradoatBoulder DepartmentofPsychology 345UCB PaigeHall Boulder,CO80309-0345 TuftsUniversity [email protected] Medford,MA02155 [email protected] DanielR.Montello DepartmentofGeography BarbaraTversky UniversityofCalifornia,Santa DepartmentofPsychology Barbara Building420 SantaBarbara,CA93106 JordanHall [email protected] Stanford,CA94305-2130 NoraS.Newcombe [email protected] DepartmentofPsychology TempleUniversity IoannaVekiri Philadelphia,PA19122 N.Plastira103 [email protected] Thessaloniki,55132,Greece DanielReisberg [email protected] DepartmentofPsychology ReedCollege MichelleVincow 3203SEWoodstockBlvd. VerizonLaboratories Portland,OR97202 18DaySt.#207 Daniel.Reisberg Somerville,MA02144 @directory.reed.edu [email protected] MikeRinck MaastrichtUniversity DavidA.Waller DepartmentofMedical,Clinical, DepartmentofPsychology andExperimentalPsychology 234BentonHall Postbus616 MiamiUniversity 6200MDMaastricht,NL Oxford,OH45056 [email protected] [email protected] P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May20,2005 2:28 ListofContributors ix ChristopherD.Wickens MichelleYeh BeckmanInstitute VolpeNationalTransportation UniversityofIllinois SystemsCenter 405N.Mathews 55Broadway Urbana,IL61801 Cambridge,MA02142 [email protected] [email protected] P1:ICD 0521807107agg.xml CB819-Miyake 0521807107 May20,2005 2:28 x
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