ABSTRACT
People are naturally spatial thinkers. We spontaneously encode much of the spatial layout and regularities of our environment. Our perceptual system seems to have incorporated spatial and dynamic properties of the environment, and readily accesses this knowledge to intuitively clarify and interpret visual events. In our perception, action, and cognition, we humans behave as spatially sophisticated beings. As such, we bring a good deal of spatial knowledge (and some biases) to problems couched in visual terms.
