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Papadopoulos, Konstantinos; Barouti, Marialena; Koustriava, Eleni – Exceptional Children, 2018
To examine how individuals with visual impairments understand space and the way they develop cognitive maps, we studied the differences in cognitive maps resulting from different methods and tools for spatial coding in large geographical spaces. We examined the ability of 21 blind individuals to create cognitive maps of routes in unfamiliar areas…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Mapping
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Papadopoulos, Konstantinos; Papadimitriou, Kimon; Koutsoklenis, Athanasios – International Journal of Special Education, 2012
The study presented here sought to explore the role of auditory cues in the spatial knowledge of blind individuals by examining the relation between the perceived auditory cues and the landscape of a given area and by investigating how blind individuals use auditory cues to create cognitive maps. The findings reveal that several auditory cues…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Maps, Cues, Cognitive Mapping