Spatial Cognition, Spatial Perception Mapping the Self and Space [Paperback]

An analysis of human and non-human animals' spatial cognitive, perceptual, and behavioural processes through mapping internal and external spatial knowledge.Analysing human and non-human spatial cognition, perception, and behaviour through mapping internal and external spatial knowledge, authors explore current understanding of spatial information processing from mapping subjectively perceived body movements to landmarks defining external space. Useful in wide-ranging disciplines: biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, ecology, primatology, and animal behaviour.Analysing human and non-human spatial cognition, perception, and behaviour through mapping internal and external spatial knowledge, authors explore current understanding of spatial information processing from mapping subjectively perceived body movements to landmarks defining external space. Useful in wide-ranging disciplines: biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, ecology, primatology, and animal behaviour.How does knowledge of the body in space relate to an understanding of space itself? Spatial cognition is discussed from two closely related perspectives: the internal mapping of external stimuli (e.g., landmarks and sensory perception of environmental information) and the internal mapping of internally perceived stimuli (e.g., kinesthetic and visual imagery), and their subsequent effects on behaviour. Clarification of what spatial information is present in most perceptual processes and how this is used cognitively in relation to the self in space is then established. Major points and controversies of the various models are discussed, along with evolutionary perspectives of spatial perception and object recognition and comparisons between human and non-human spatial cognitive abilities and behaviours. Written for postgraduate students and researchers, the authors present theoretical and experimental accounts at multiple levels of analysis - perl�