ABSTRACT
The search for explanations of the spatial behavior of individuals and groups inevitably leads to a discussion of the processes that influence behavior. Recent emphasis in geography on interaction, diffusion and decision-making models, and a surge of interest in some spatial aspects of psychophysical theories of perception, confirm this trend. Another process that involves some useful spatial concepts, but which so far has merited scant attention in geography, is the learning process. It is the aim of this paper to examine the role of this process in spatial behavior, to indicate some useful spatial concepts from learning theory, to review a selection of learning models that could conceivably be used in a spatial framework and to suggest some problems that are suitable for analysis by the models presented in the paper.
