Cognitive representations of obligation and prohibition signs when they provide the same amount of semantic information
The aim of this research was to test whether there is an inherent difficulty in understanding prohibition signs rather than obligation signs. In the experiment conducted, participants decided whether simple car movements presented on a computer screen were allowed or not according to either obligation or prohibition traffic signs. The information provided by obligation and prohibition signs at a T-junction can be understood as messages in the form: A “mandatory [...]
Spatial memory and hippocampal function: Where are we now?
The main aim of this paper is to provide an overview [...]
The role of the avian hippocampus in spatial memory
Avian hippocampal function is surveyed, using data drawn from three areas: [...]
Redundancy and blocking in the spatial domain: A connectionist model
How can the observations of spatial blocking (Rodrigo, Chamizo, McLaren [...]
Preexposure effects in spatial learning: From gestaltic to associative and attentional cognitive maps
In this paper a series of studies and theoretical proposals [...]
