Invited Talks -- Individual Differences in Spatial Language and Way-Finding: The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Motivation -- CogSketch: Sketch Understanding for Cognitive Science Research and for Education -- The Refraction of Space: A Radical Reversal of Direction -- Distance and Time -- Investigating the Role of Goals and Environmental Structure on Memory for Distance and Time in Virtual Environments -- The Spatial and Temporal Underpinnings of Social Distance -- Navigation -- The Role of Slope in Human Reorientation -- Influence of Geometry and Objects on Local Route Choices during Wayfinding -- Testing Landmark Identification Theories in Virtual Environments -- Men to the East and Women to the Right: Wayfinding with Verbal Route Instructions -- Science Education and Spatial Skill -- Do All Science Disciplines Rely on Spatial Abilities? Preliminary Evidence from Self-report Questionnaires -- Gestures in Geology: The Roles of Spatial Skills, Expertise, and Communicative Context -- Using Analogical Mapping to Assess the Affordances of Scale Models Used in Earth and Environmental Science Education -- Language -- Aligning Spatial Perspective in Route Descriptions -- The Role of Grammatical Aspect in the Dynamics of Spatial Descriptions -- Implicit Spatial Length Modulates Time Estimates, But Not Vice Versa -- Computational Modelling -- Bio-inspired Architecture for Active Sensorimotor Localization -- Color Binding in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory -- Reference Frames -- Human EEG Correlates of Spatial Navigation within Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames -- Putting Egocentric and Allocentric into Perspective -- Reference Frames Influence Spatial Memory Development within and Across Sensory Modalities -- Do We Need to Walk for Effective Virtual Reality Navigation? Physical Rotations Alone May Suffice -- Visual Attention in Spatial Reasoning -- Eye Movements Reflect Reasoning with Mental Images but Not with Mental Models in Orientation Knowledge Tasks -- An Eye-Tracking Study of Integrative Spatial Cognition over Diagrammatic Representations -- Maps and Assistance -- Enriching Spatial Knowledge through a Multiattribute Locational System -- Interactive Assistance for Tour Planning -- Verbally Annotated Tactile Maps – Challenges and Approaches -- Generating Adaptive Route Instructions Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning -- Language, Neuroscience and Education -- Can Mirror-Reading Reverse the Flow of Time?.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Spatial Cognition 2010, held in Mt. Hood/Portland, OR, USA, in August 2010. The 25 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distance and time, navigation, science education and spatial skill, language, computational modelling, reference frames, visual attention in spatial reasoning, maps and assistance, as well as language, neuroscience and education.