A map is not only a result of human spatial environment cognition, but also a tool of human spatial cognition. For many centuries, as a kind of graphic communication tool of spatial information, a map has been playing an important role in human spatial cognition. Spatial cognition is the process of spatial information processing. Spatial cognition is an important research area of cognitive scie...

Background: Spatial learning and navigation is a fundamental cognitive ability consisting of multiple cognitive components. Despite intensive efforts conducted with the assistance of virtual reality technology and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) modality, the music effect on this cognition and the involved neuronal mechanisms remain elusive. Objectives: We aimed to investigate the...

The relation of spatial language and spatial cognition is central to the debate over language and thought. Recent findings move this debate beyond the standard opposition between universalist and relativist (Whorfian) stances. Two such studies suggest that spatial language (Khetarpal et al., 2009) and the spatial cognition underlying it (Khetarpal et al., 2010) both reflect universal tendencies...

Background: Researchers have been investigating similarities of and differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals for past few decades. Several studies have shown that in the particular domain (e.g., spatial ability), male homosexuals would resemble female heterosexuals better than male heterosexuals. Executive function, however, has received more attention than social cognition in this lin...

This year ́s Spatial Cognition 2008 (SC ‘08) continued a successful series of international and interdisciplinary conferences on spatial cognition held in Germany. SC’08 was organized by the Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition in cooperation with the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC). SC‘08 took place at Schloss Reinach, an estate near Freiburg im ...

objective(s) learning is defined as the acquisition of information and skills, while subsequent retention of that information is called memory. the objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of aqueous extract of boswellia papyrifera on learning and memory paradigms in mice and rats. materials and methods this study was held at the department of pharmacology, faculty of pharma...