Peta J White, Nicole M Ardoin, Chris Eames, Martha C Monroe
Agency in the Anthropocene: education for planetary health
The Lancet. Planetary health
humans use spatial information processing abilities flexibly facilitate problem solving decision making variety tasks article explores question whether general strategy adapted performing two different spatial orientation tasks testing predictions computational cognitive model human performance measured orientation task requiring participants identify location target either map findonmap within egocentric view space findinscene general strategy instantiated computational cognitive model findonmap task based results gunzelmann anderson 2006 adapted perform tasks used generate performance predictions new study qualitative fit model human data supports view participants able tailor general strategy requirements particular spatial tasks quantitative differences predictions model performance human participants new experiment expose individual differences sample populations model provides means accounting differences framework understanding human spatial abilities applied naturalistic spatial tasks involve reasoning maps