Cognitive Mapping: Psyc Call for Book Reviewers

PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS Below is the Asbtract of "Wayfinding Behavior: Cognitive mapping and other spatial processes" (685 lines). This book has been selected for multiple review in PSYCOLOQUY. If you wish to submit a formal book review please write to psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu indicating what expertise you would bring to bear on reviewing the book if you were selected to review it. (If you have never reviewed for PSYCOLOQUY or Behavioral & Brain Sciences before, it would be helpful if you could also append a copy of your CV to your inquiry.) If you are selected as one of the reviewers and do not have a copy of the book, you will be sent a copy of the book directly by the publisher (please let us know if you have a copy already). Reviews may also be submitted without invitation, but all reviews will be refereed. The author will reply to all accepted reviews. Full Psycoloquy book review instructions at: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/ Relevant excerpts: Psycoloquy reviews are of the book not the Precis. Length should be about 200 lines [c. 1800 words], with a short abstract (about 50 words), an indexable title, and reviewer's full name and institutional address, email and Home Page URL. All references that are electronically accessible should also have URLs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- psyc.99.10.036.cognitive-mapping.1.golledge Sun Oct 17 1999 ISSN 1055-0143 (32 paragraphs, 14 references, 685 lines) PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Copyright 1999 Reginald Golledge WAYFINDING BEHAVIOR: COGNITIVE MAPPING AND OTHER SPATIAL PROCESSES. [John Hopkins University Press, 1999 xviii, 428pp, ISBN: 0-8018-5993-X] Precis of Golledge on Cognitive-Mapping Reginald G. Golledge Department of Geography University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106-4060 U.S.A. golledge(a)geog.ucsb.edu ABSTRACT: This is an edited volume of essays by psychologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, and geographers on wayfinding by humans and other species. It addresses the extent to which cognitive maps may be universal, and produces evidence that humans, apes, some birds and some small mammals appear to behave as if they have internal representations that guide wayfinding processes in a map-like manner. Evidence also shows that insects, some mammals, and perhaps some birds may not evince such guided behavior, but rely more on spatial updating by dead-reckoning or pilotage. The multiple disciplinary views of wayfinding and navigation by humans and other animals gives the volume a distinctly different content from other available books. KEYWORDS: cognitive map; internal representation; navigation; navigation; path integration; place cells; wayfinding.