Publications by Daniel R. Montello and Colleagues

Last updated May 2009
Most papers below available online

Books:

• Barkowsky, T., Knauff, M., Ligozat, G., & Montello, D. R. (Eds.) (2007). Spatial cognition V: Reasoning, action, interaction. Berlin: Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4387.
• Montello, D. R., & Sutton, P. C. (2006). An introduction to scientific research methods in geography. Thousand Oaks, London: Sage Publications. [ISBN 1-4129-0286-X (cloth), 1-4129-0287-8 (paper)]   Sage page here

• Montello, D. R. (Ed.) (2001). Spatial information theory: Foundations of geographic information science. Proceedings of COSIT '01. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2205.

Articles and Chapters:

• Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., & Mark, D. M. (in press). The natural landscape metaphor in information visualization. The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
• Klippel, A., Tenbrink, T., & Montello, D. R. (in press). The role of structure and function in the conceptualization of directions. In M. Vulchanova & E. van der Zee (Eds.), Motion encoding in language and space. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Montello, D. R. (in press). A conceptual model of the cognitive processing of environmental distance information. In K. S. Hornsby & G. Ligozat (Eds.), Spatial information theory (pp. ). Proceedings of COSIT ‘09. Berlin: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• Montello, D. R. (in press). Cognitive geography. In R. Kitchin & N. Thrift (Eds.), International encyclopedia of human geography. North-Holland: Elsevier Science B. V.
• Montello, D. R. (in press). Cognitive research in GIScience: Recent achievements and future pospects. Geography Compass.
• Battersby, S. E., & Montello, D. R. (2009). Area estimation of world regions and the projection of the global-scale cognitive map. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 99, 273-291.
• Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Khooshabeh, P., & Montello, D. R. (2009). How spatial abilities enhance, and are enhanced by, dental education. Learning and Individual Differences, 19, 61-70. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2008.04.006
  
• Montello, D. R. (2009, Issue 1). Geographic orientation and disorientation: Getting lost and getting found in real and information spaces. User Experience Magazine, 8.
• Montello, D. R. (2009). Comment on “Finding the way: A critical discussion of anthropological theories of human spatial orientation with reference to reindeer herders of northeastern Europe and western Siberia” by Istomin, K. V. & Dwyer, M. J. (2009). Current Anthropology, 50, 44.
• Fabrikant, S. I., & Montello, D. R. (2008). The effect of instructions on distance and similarity judgments in information spatializations. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 22, 463-478.
• Fabrikant, S. I., Rebich-Hespanha, S., Andrienko, N., Andrienko, G., & Montello, D. R. (2008). Novel method to measure inference affordance in static small-multiple map displays representing dynamic processes. The Cartographic Journal, 45, 201–215.
  
• Keehner, M., Hegarty, M., Cohen, C. A., Khooshabeh, P., & Montello, D. R. (2008). Spatial reasoning with external visualizations: What matters is what you see, not whether you interact. Cognitive Science, 32, 1099-1132.
• Montello, D. R. (2008). Geographic regions as brute facts, social facts, and institutional facts. In B. Smith, D. M. Mark, & I. Ehrlich (Eds.), The mystery of capital and the construction of social reality (pp. 305-316). Chicago, IL: Open Court.
• Montello, D. R. (2008). Cognitive science. In K. K. Kemp (Ed.), Encyclopedia of geographic information science (pp. 40-43). Thousand Oaks, CA, & London: SAGE Publications.
• 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.
• Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Cohen, C., Montello, D. R., & Lippa, Y. (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.
• 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 (pp. 354-372). Proceedings of COSIT '07. Berlin: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4736.
• 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. Special Issue on “Exploring Geovisualization,” T.-M. Rhyne, A. MacEachren, & J. Dykes (Eds.).
• 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.
• Hegarty, M., Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. E., Ishikawa, T., & Lovelace, K. (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.
  
• Keehner, M., Lippa, Y., Montello, D. R., Tendick, F., & Hegarty, M. (2006). Learning a spatial skill for surgery: How the contributions of abilities change with practice. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 487-503.
• 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.
• Montello, D. R. (2005). Navigation. In P. Shah & A. Miyake (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of visuospatial thinking (pp. 257-294). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Montello, D. R., & Freundschuh, S. M. (2005). 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. 
• Montello, D. R., & Gray, M. V. (2005). Miscommunicating with isoline preference maps: Design principles for thematic maps. Cartographic Perspectives, 50, 24-33.
• 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.
• Klippel, A., Dewey, C., Knauff, M., Richter, K.-F., Montello, D. R., Freksa, C., & Loeliger, E.-A. (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
• Montello, D. R., Fabrikant, S. I., Ruocco, M., & Middleton, R. S. (2003). Testing the first law of cognitive geography on point-display spatializations. In Kuhn, W., Worboys, M. F., & Timpf, S. (Eds.), Spatial information theory: Foundations of geographic information science (pp. 335-351). Proceedings of COSIT '03. Berlin: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2825.
• 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. Special Issue on "Spatial vagueness, uncertainty, granularity," B. Bennett, & M. Cristani (Eds.).
• 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.
• Hegarty, M., Richardson, A. E., Montello, D. R., Lovelace, K., & Subbiah, I. (2002). Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability. Intelligence, 30, 425-447.
• Montello, D. R. (2002). Cognitive map-design research in the twentieth century: Theoretical and empirical approaches.Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 29, 283-304. Special Issue on "The history of cartography in the 20th century", M. Monmonier, & D. Woodward (Eds.).
• Waller, D., Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. E., & Hegarty, M. (2002). Orientation specificity and spatial updating of memories for layouts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 1051-1063.
• Montello, D. R. (2001). Scale, in geography. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 13501-13504). Oxford: Pergamon Press.
• Montello, D. R. (2001). Spatial cognition. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 14771-14775). Oxford: Pergamon Press.
• Slocum, T. A., Blok, C., Jiang, B., Koussoulakou, A., Montello, D. R., Fuhrmann, S., & Hedley, N. R. (2001). Cognitive and usability issues in geovisualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 28, 61-75.
• Sutton, P. C., & Montello, D. R. (2000). Public attitudes about population issues: A survey in Santa Barbara County. Southwestern Geographer, 4, 54-93.
• Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. E., Hegarty, M., & Provenza, M. (1999). A comparison of methods for estimating directions in egocentric space. Perception, 28, 981-1000.
• Montello, D. R., Lovelace, K. L., Golledge, R. G., & Self, C. M. (1999). Sex-related differences and similarities in geographic and environmental spatial abilities. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 89, 515-534.
• Lovelace, K. L., Hegarty, M., & Montello, D. R. (1999). Elements of good route directions in familiar and unfamiliar environments. In C. Freksa & D. M. Mark (Eds.), Spatial information theory:  Cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science (pp. 65-82). Proceedings of COSIT '99. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1661.
• Richardson, A. R., Montello, D. R., & Hegarty, M. (1999). Spatial knowledge acquisition from maps, and from navigation in real and virtual environments. Memory and Cognition, 27, 741-750.
• Montello, D. R., & Golledge, R. G. (1999). Scale and Detail in the Cognition of Geographic Information. Report of Specialist Meeting of Project Varenius held May 14-16, 1998, in Santa Barbara, CA. University of California at Santa Barbara, http://www.ncgia.org.
• Funk, C., Curtin, K., Goodchild, M., Montello, D. R., & Noronha, V. (1999). Formulation and test of a model of positional distortion fields. In K. Lowell & A. Jaton (Eds.), Spatial accuracy assessment: Land information uncertainty in natural resources (pp. 131-137). Chelsea, MI: Ann Arbor Press.
• Gottsegen, J., Montello, D. R., & Goodchild, M. (1999). A comprehensive model of uncertainty in spatial data. In K. Lowell & A. Jaton (Eds.), Spatial accuracy assessment: Land information uncertainty in natural resources (pp. 175-181). Chelsea, MI: Ann Arbor Press.
• Montello, D. R. (1998). Kartenverstehen: Die Sicht der Kognitionspsychologie [Understanding maps: The view from cognitive psychology]. Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 20, 91-103.
• Montello, D. R. (1998). A new framework for understanding the acquisition of spatial knowledge in large-scale environments. In M. J. Egenhofer & R. G. Golledge (Eds.), Spatial and temporal reasoning in geographic information systems (pp. 143-154). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Montello, D. R. (1997). The perception and cognition of environmental distance: Direct sources of information. In S. C. Hirtle & A. U. Frank (Eds.), Spatial information theory: A theoretical basis for GIS (pp. 297-311). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1329.
• Montello, D. R. (1997). Review of "Sensuous Geographies: Body, Sense, and Place" by Paul Rodaway. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 17, 77-79.
• Montello, D. R., & Frank, A. U. (1996). Modeling directional knowledge and reasoning in environmental space: Testing qualitative metrics. In J. Portugali (Ed.), The construction of cognitive maps (pp. 321-344). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.
• Montello, D. R. (1995). How significant are cultural differences in spatial cognition? In A. U. Frank & W. Kuhn (Eds.), Spatial information theory: A theoretical basis for GIS (pp. 485-500). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 988.
• Montello, D. R., & Freundschuh, S. M. (1995). Sources of spatial knowledge and their implications for GIS: An introduction. Geographical Systems, 2, 169-176. 
• Pick, H. L., Heinrichs, M. R., Montello, D. R., Smith, K., Sullivan, C. N., & Thompson, W. B. (1995). Topographic map reading. In P. A. Hancock, J. M. Flach, J. Caird, & K. J. Vicente (Eds.), Local applications of the ecological approach to human-machine systems, Vol. 2 (pp. 255-284). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Montello, D. R., Sullivan, C. N., & Pick, H. L. (1994). Recall memory for topographic maps and natural terrain: Effects of experience and task performance. Cartographica, 31, 18-36.
• Montello, D. R. (1994). Le défaut de cadres de référence chez les enfants et les adultes: Le développement du concept d'endroit dans le langage [Default reference frames of children and adults: Development of the concept of place in language]. In P. Pellegrino (Ed.), Figures architecturales, formes urbaines (pp. 663-672). Geneva: Anthropos.
• Presson, C. C., & Montello, D. R. (1994). Updating after rotational and translational body movements: Coordinate structure of perspective space. Perception, 23, 1447-1455.
• Montello, D. R. (1993). Scale and multiple psychologies of space. In A. U. Frank & I. Campari (Eds.), Spatial information theory: A theoretical basis for GIS (pp. 312-321). Proceedings of COSIT '93. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 716.
• Montello, D. R., & Pick, H. L. (1993). Integrating knowledge of vertically-aligned large-scale spaces. Environment and Behavior, 25, 457-484.
• Kenrick, D. T., Montello, D. R., Gutierres, S. E., & Trost, M. R. (1993). Effects of physical attractiveness on affect and perceptual judgments: When social comparison overrides social reinforcement. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, 195-199.
• Montello, D. R. (1992). The geometry of environmental knowledge. In A. U. Frank, I. Campari, & U. Formentini (Eds.), Theories and methods of spatio-temporal reasoning in geographic space: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 639. (pp. 136-152). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
• Montello, D. R. (1992). Characteristics of environmental spatial cognition. PSYCOLOQUY (refereed electronic journal), 3(52) space.10.
  
• Montello, D. R. (1992). An effect of seating location on course achievement?: Comment on Brooks and Rebeta. Environment and Behavior, 24, 396-399.
• Montello, D. R. (1991). The measurement of cognitive distance: Methods and construct validity. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 11, 101-122.
• Montello, D. R. (1991). Spatial orientation and the angularity of urban routes: A field study. Environment and Behavior, 23, 47-69.
• Sadalla, E. K., & Montello, D. R. (1989). Remembering changes in direction. Environment and Behavior, 21, 346-363.
• Montello, D. R. (1988). Classroom seating location and its effect on course achievement, participation, and attitudes. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 8, 149-157.
• Pick, H. L., Montello, D. R., & Somerville, S. C. (1988). Landmarks and the coordination and integration of spatial information. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6, 372-375.
• Presson, C. C., & Montello, D. R. (1988). Points of reference in spatial cognition: Stalking the elusive landmark. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6, 378-381.
• Chassin, L., Presson, C. C., Sherman, S. J., Montello, D. R., & McGrew, J. (1986). Changes in peer and parent influence during adolescence: Longitudinal vs. cross-sectional perspectives on smoking initiation. Developmental Psychology, 22, 327-334.
• Kenrick, D. T., Montello, D. R., & MacFarlane, S. (1985). Personality: Social learning, social cognition, or sociobiology? In R. Hogan & W. H. Jones (Eds.), Perspectives in personality, Vol. 1. (pp. 201-234). Greenwich, CT: JAI.
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