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Articles on Spatial cognition

August 25, 2022

Counting from left to right feels ‘natural’ – but new research shows our brains count faster from bottom to top

Luke Greenacre, Monash University; Adrian Dyer, Monash University; Jair Garcia, Monash University, and Scarlett Howard, Monash University

Horizontal number lines are often the default option – but our brains may process numbers more quickly in a vertical arrangement.

January 21, 2019

Lloyd White, University of Wollongong

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been criticised for its portrayals of violence, but it could also be teaching players the lost art of reading a map.

November 16, 2018

Jennifer M. Bernstein, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Without their devices, regular GPS users take longer to negotiate a route, travel more slowly and make larger navigational errors.

Adrian Dyer
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
Jair Garcia
Researcher and analyst, Monash University
Scarlett Howard
Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Lloyd White
Lecturer (Geology), University of Wollongong
Jennifer M. Bernstein
Lecturer of Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Luke Greenacre
Senior lecturer in marketing, Monash University