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Publications for Dan Montello
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Montello, D. R. (2008). Review of “Learning to Think Spatially” by the Committee on Support for Thinking Spatially: The Incorporation of Geographic Information Science Across the K–12 Curriculum, the National Research Council. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28, 104-106.
Klippel, A. & Montello, D. R. (2007). Linguistic and nonlinguistic turn direction concepts. In S. Winter, M. Duckham, L. Kulik, & B. Kuipers (Eds.) Spatial information theory. Proceedings of COSIT '07. pp. 354-372. Berlin: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4736.
Barkowsky, T., Knauff, M., Ligozat, G., & Montello, D. R. (2007). Spatial cognition V: Reasoning, action, interaction. Berlin: Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4387.
Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Cohen, C., & Montello, D. R., et al. (2007). The role of spatial cognition in medicine: Applications for selecting and training professionals. In G. L. Allen (Ed.) Applied spatial cognition: From research to cognitive technology pp. 285-315. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Montello, D. R. & Sutton, P. C. (2006). An introduction to scientific research methods in geography. Thousand Oaks, CA & London: Sage Publications.
Montello, D. R. & Freundschuh, S. M. (2006). Cognition of geographic information. In R. B. McMaster & E. L. Usery (Eds.) A research agenda for geographic information science pp. 61-91. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 
Friedman, A. & Montello, D. R. (2006). Global-scale location and distance estimates: Common representations and strategies in absolute and relative judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 333-346.
Montello, D. R. & Sas, C. (2006). Human factors of wayfinding in navigation. In W. Karwowski (Ed.) International encyclopedia of ergonomics and human factors, 2nd ed. pp. 2003-2008. London: CRC Press: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Keehner, M., Lippa, Y., Montello, D. R., & Tendick, F., et al. (2006). Learning a spatial skill for surgery: How the contributions of abilities change with practice. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 487-503.
Hegarty, M., Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. E., & Ishikawa, T., et al. (2006). Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning. Intelligence, 34, 151-176.
Ishikawa, T. & Montello, D. R., (2006). Spatial knowledge acquisition from direct experience in the environment: Individual differences in the development of metric knowledge and the integration of separately learned places. Cognitive Psychology, 52, 93-129.
Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., & Mark, D. M. (2006). The distance-similarity metaphor in region-display spatializations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 26, 34-44.
Montello, D. R. & Gray, M. V. (2005). Miscommunicating with isoline preference maps: Design principles for thematic maps. Cartographic Perspectives, 50, 24-33.
Montello, D. R. (2005). Navigation. In P. Shah & A. Miyake (Eds.) The Cambridge handbook of visuospatial thinking pp. 257-294. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Klippel, A., Dewey, C., Knauff, M., & Richter, K. F., et al. (2004). Direction concepts in wayfinding assistance. In J. Baus, C. Kray, & R. Porzel (Eds.) Workshop on artificial intelligence in mobile systems 2004 (AIMS'04) pp. 1-8. Saarbrücken, Germany: SFB 378 Memo 84.
Montello, D. R. (2004). Review of “Representations of space and time” by Donna J. Peuquet. The Geographical Review, 94, 124-127.
Montello, D. R., Waller, D., Hegarty, M., & Richardson, A. E. (2004). Spatial memory of real environments, virtual environments, and maps. In G. L. Allen (Ed.) Human spatial memory: Remembering where pp. 251-285. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., Ruocco, M., & Middleton, R. S. (2004). The distance-similarity metaphor in network-display spatializations. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 31, 237-252.
Montello, D. R. (2003). Regions in geography: Process and content. In M. Duckham, M. F. Goodchild, & M. F. Worboys (Eds.) Foundations of Geographic Information Science pp. 173-189. London: Taylor & Francis.
Montello, D. R., Fabrikant, S. I., Ruocco, M., & Middleton, R. S. (2003). Testing the first law of cognitive geography on point-display spatializations. In W. Kuhn, M. F. Worboys, & S. Timpf, (Eds.) Spatial information theory: Foundations of geographic information science. Proceedings of COSIT '03. Berlin: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2825. pp. 335-351.
Montello, D. R., Goodchild, M. F., Gottsegen, J., & Fohl, P. (2003). Where's downtown?: Behavioral methods for determining referents of vague spatial queries. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 3, 185-204.

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