Integrating Spatial Knowledge: Transition from Route to Configurational Knowledge

这一基于成就的更新奖将使教授 Golledge和他的合作者继续研究 儿童和成人获取、处理和存储有关新事物的信息。 地理环境。 本研究的目的是 确定人们如何获得导航所需的知识， 城市和其他地区。 地理知识的获取和使用 导航分析在现场和实验室设置。 Golledge教授以前在这个问题上的工作 他的研究团队备受推崇 它增加了我们的 了解人们如何识别地标，学习路线， 将这些知识整合到社区的心理图像中， 城市 该奖项将允许调查人员详细说明这些 理解。 该项目的研究成果 重要的影响，理论和模型，如何儿童和 成年人一般学习空间关系，以及他们如何 在精神上想象局部和更大的区域。

This Accomplishment-Based Renewal award will enable Professor Golledge and his collaborators to continue their research on how children and adults acquire, process, and store information about new geographical environments. The purpose of this research is to determine how people acquire the knowledge they need to navigate in cities and other areas. Geographical knowledge acquisition and use for navigation is analyzed in both field and laboratory settings. The previous work on this topic conducted by Professor Golledge and his research team is highly regarded. It has increased our understanding of how people identify landmarks, learn routes, and integrate such knowledge into mental images of neighborhoods and cities. This award will permit the investigators to elaborate those understandings. Research findings resulting from this project have important implications for theories and models of how children and adults learn about spatial relationships generally and how they come to mentally visualize local and larger areas.