ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how memory for spatial configurations corresponds to physical layouts and what distorts memory for space. It addresses memory for space, and time. The chapter provides issues relating to memory psychophysics or how memory for space corresponds to actual, measured spatial reality. It discusses how spatial information relates to memory for a space by covering memory psychophysics, memory for information learned from maps, and how our interaction with the world affects spatial memory. The chapter considers the properties of mental maps and how these may be created using spatial and other information. A theory of mental maps that uses a combination of metric and region information is a partially hierarchical view. People's use of mental maps is often influenced by and oriented around spatial frameworks, which may reflect the perspective taken during encoding or retrieval. The chapter also considers three types of information that can influence navigation. These are landmarks, route, and survey knowledge.
