SPATIAL COGNITION
Corso
A Padova
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Tipologia
Corso
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Luogo
Padova
The final exam will be held on the official dates proposed by the School of Psychology.
It will be a written exam and will last one hour.
The assessment of knowledge will cover all the topics taught (based on all course material, i.e. book and slides); it will be based mainly on multiple choice and true/false questions.
The target skills will be ascertained with open questions that test the student’s knowledge and its application to the interpretation of experimental results, spatial individual difference profiles, comparing classifications, models and paradigms of spatial cognition.
The exam will includes:
a) 30 multiple-choice and true/false questions
b) 3 open questions
The exam will be the same for students who do or do not attend the lectures.
For students who attend, there will also be facultative additional open questions relating to practical experiences specifically conducted during the lectures (spatial tasks, measurement practice in the field and in the lab, etc.).
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Inizio del corso
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Programma
- Space and cognition: key aspects (philosophical approaches; cognitive map definition; developmental models)
- Geographical space (analysis of the territory, cartography)
- Measurements of spatial knowledge (places, distances, directions, distortions)
- Spatial knowledge acquired from maps: map features, frame of reference to organized information in spatial memory
- Spatial knowledge acquired by navigation: locomotion and wayfinding models and modalities for assessing navigation (real exploration and virtual environments); experiences and simulations of different navigation modalities
- “Spatial brain”: the main neuro-cognitive structures involved in cognitive maps formation, landmark recognition, allocentric and egocentric knowledge and switching between them
- Clinical conditions associated with spatial orientation and knowledge: Topographical disorientation, spatial neglect and agoraphobia
- Weakness and challenges in spatial knowledge and representations: individuals with intellectual disabilities, older adults and blind people
- Space and language: spatial terminology (prepositions, linguistic diversity), spatial descriptions (different kinds of descriptions, perspectives and mental models), spatial discourse (route direction, the role of landmarks and models)
- Individual visuo-spatial differences in processing and representing spatial information: visuo-spatial abilities (mental rotation, perspective taking), self-reported attitudes, preferences and strategies*
- The relationship between individual visuo-spatial differences and environment learning using different modalities (maps, navigation and descriptions) *
- spatial representations in motor activities and sport*
* The topic will be presented mainly in the slides
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SPATIAL COGNITION