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The chapters in Human Spatial Memory: Remembering Where present a fascinating picture of an everyday aspect of mental life that is as intriguing to people outside of academia as it is to scientists studying human cognition and behavior. The questions are as old as the study of mind itself: How do we remember where objects are located? How do we remember where we are in relation to other places? What is the origin and developmental course of spatial memory? What neural structures are involved in remembering where? How do we come to understand scaled-down versions of places as symbolic re

Space perception --- Spatial behavior --- Spatial ability --- Ability --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Psychology --- Space and time

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Our experience of the world is influenced by numerous spatial biases, most of which influence us without our being aware of them. These biases are related to illusions and asymmetries in our perception of space, relationships between space and other qualities, dynamics of moving objects, dynamics of scene configuration, and dynamics related to perception and action. Consideration of these biases provides insight into how we perceive, remember, and navigate space, as well as how we interact with objects and people in space. This volume introduces and reviews numerous spatial biases, and provides descriptions and examples of each bias. The contributors discuss historical and current theories for many biases, and for some biases, provide new explanatory theories. Providing a 'one-stop shop' for information on such a key aspect of our experience in the world, this volume will interest anyone curious about our understanding of space.

Space perception. --- Spatial behavior. --- Cognition. --- Psychology --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Space and time --- Spatial perception --- Perception --- Spatial behavior --- Figure-ground perception --- Geographical perception

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Open Space Technology (OST) is an effective, economical, fast, and easily repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 1,000 participants. First developed in 1984, it has now been used around the world with all types of organizations including corporations, community groups, government agencies, schools, and churches. OST produces better meetings and helps groups achieve such organizational goals as self-managed work groups, distributed leadership, and utilizing diversity quickly and without training. In Expanding Our Now, OST creator Harrison Owen offers numerous examples to illustrate the evolution of OST and explores what it is, how it developed as a process for meeting management, and how and why it works all over the world, for groups of all sizes dealing with a vast range of issues. Owen shows how OST can move organizations to higher levels of performance, without elaborate training or professional facilitators.

Group decision-making. --- Spatial behavior. --- Group decision making --- Spatial behavior --- E-books --- Group decision making. --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Psychology --- Space and time --- Collective decision making --- Decision-making, Group --- Decision making

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Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous computational power to figuring out the simplest details about spatial relationships. Going to the grocery store or finding our cell phone requires sleuthing and coordination across different sensory and motor domains. Making Space traces this mental detective work to explain how the brain creates our sense of location. But it goes further, to make the case that spatial processing permeates all our cognitive abilities, and that the brain’s systems for thinking about space may be the systems of thought itself. Our senses measure energy in the form of light, sound, and pressure on the skin, and our brains evaluate these measurements to make inferences about objects and boundaries. Jennifer Groh describes how eyes detect electromagnetic radiation, how the brain can locate sounds by measuring differences of less than one one-thousandth of a second in how long they take to reach each ear, and how the ear’s balance organs help us monitor body posture and movement. The brain synthesizes all this neural information so that we can navigate three-dimensional space. But the brain’s work doesn’t end there. Spatial representations do double duty in aiding memory and reasoning. This is why it is harder to remember how to get somewhere if someone else is driving, and why, if we set out to do something and forget what it was, returning to the place we started can jog our memory. In making space the brain uses powers we did not know we have.

Space perception. --- Spatial behavior. --- Cognition. --- Psychology --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Space and time --- Spatial perception --- Perception --- Spatial behavior --- Figure-ground perception --- Geographical perception --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Cognitive psychology

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Organizational sociology --- Spatial behavior. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Sociology / General --- Social Change --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Psychology --- Space and time --- Organization (Sociology) --- Organization theory --- Sociology of organizations --- Sociology --- Bureaucracy --- Philosophy.