This important work brings together international academics from a variety of disciplines to explore the topic of spatial cognition on a 'geographic' scale. It provides an overview of the historical origins of the subject, a description of current debates and suggests directions for future research.

Contents:
1. Cognitive mapping Rob Kitchin and Scott Freundschuh
2. Collecting and analysing cognitive mapping data Rob Kitchin
3. Levels and structure of spatial knowledge Barbara Tversky
4. Cognitive mapping and spatial decision making Tommy Gärling and Reginald G Golledge
5. Route learning and way finding Edward H. Cornell and C. Donald Heth
6. Understanding and learning maps Robert Lloyd
7. Understanding and learning virtual spaces Patrick Peruch, Florence Gaunet, Catherine Thinus-Blanc and Jack Loomis
8. Micro and macro spaces Scott Freundschuh
9. Cognitive mapping in childhood David Uttal and Lisa Tan
10. Ageing and spatial behaviour in the elderly adult K.C. Kirasic
11. A view of space through language Holly Taylor
12. Sex, gender and cognitive mapping Carole Self and Reg Golledge
13. Cognitive mapping without visual experience Simon Ungar
14. The future of cognitive mapping research Rob Kitchin and Scott Freundschuh

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2015, held in Santa Fee, NM, USA, in October 2015. The 22 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 full paper submissions. The following topics are addressed: formalizing and modeling space-time, qualitative spatio-temporal reasoning and representation, language and space, signs, images, maps, and other representations of space, navigations by humans and machines.