Browsing by Subject "Spatial Cognition"

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    Experiencing space without vision
    (1997) Evyapan, Naz A. G. Z.
    In this study, the human body without vision, and its relation with the surrounding space, is examined. Towards this end, firstly space and the human body are briefly discussed. the sense modalities apart from vision, and the development of spatial cognition for the blind and visually impaired are examined. The environmental factors that contribute to the understanding of the surrounding built environment, and the assistive devices for this population are briefly covered. These issues stress the importance of stimulating, thus training the human body without vision to establish body and spatial awareness, and to learn to gather information from the surrounding architectural environment to be able to perform a task. To illustrate this fact, an experiment was conducted among blind and visually impaired children from the Goreneller Primary School in Ankara. The study consists of testing a game played with an educative toy and its effects on the tactual learning performance of the children.
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    The sense of direction in virtual environments
    (2005) Kutlu, Z. Gözde
    Improvements in the computer technology lead people to investigate the potential of the virtual environments. The spatial factors, that are significant for spatial navigation in real- world environments, are important also in virtual environments. Performances of people during navigation through a virtual environment may be influenced by the individual differences as well as the learning method of the layout. In this experiment, sense of direction as an important spatial ability has been investigated considering the influence of gender and learning methodology in the virtual environments (VEs). The analysis of the experiment showed that sense of direction has a positive effect on the performances of the independent viewpoint participants in misaligned questions. Apart from this, contrary to the earlier bias, no significant difference was found related to gender and sense of direction ability as well as the learning performances of the participants in the VE.