location

[OED]: 3. The fact or condition of occupying a particular place; local position, situation. Also, position in a series or succession.

location

...to understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things and navigate around the world, and how they represent and mentally manipulate spatial information (p 2). A fundamental distinction is that the location of objects can be coded in two basically different but coordinated ways: with respect to external landmarks, or with respect to the self (p 14).

location

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Tversky (2005)

According to [the Spatial Framework Theory] people remember locations of objects around the body by constructing a mental spatial framework consisting of extensions of the axes of the body, head/feet, front/back, and left/right, and attaching objects to them (p 7)

location

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Gersmehl (2005)
Where is it? (p. 100); Position in space, a cornerstone geographic idea ( p. 271); Relative location: position expressed in terms of one or more known locations (p. 59); absolute location: Position expressed in terms of a coordinate system or mathematical grid (p. 59); . . . the concept of location is surprisingly difficult to communicate without employing at least one other spatial concept, such as distance, direction, adjacency, or enclosure (p. 100)

location

Individual can describe a specific location (both real and abstract settings) in terms of relative location using spatial prepositions or phrases such as near, far, close, next to, in front of, above (p. 95)

location

Recognize place of objects or features (p. 698)
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