Publications by Daniel R. Montello and Colleagues

Last updated March 2026
Most papers below available online

Books:

• Montello, Daniel R., Applegarth, Michael T., & McKnight, Tom L. (2021). Regional geography of the United States and Canada (5th ed.). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. ISBN 978-1-4786-3961-9
  Waveland page here
• Bjelland, M. D., Montello, D. R., & Getis, A. (2019). Human geography: Landscapes of human activities (13th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill. ISBN13: 978-1-260-22064-3 (cloth) 978-1-260-22064-3
  
McGraw-Hill page here
• Bjelland, M. D., Montello, D. R., Fellmann, J. D., Getis, A., & Getis, J. (2013). Human geography: Landscapes of human activities (12th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
  
• Montello, D. R., & Sutton, P. C. (2013). An introduction to scientific research methods in geography and environmental studies (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA, & London: SAGE Publications.
  
SAGE page here
• 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)]  

Edited Books:

• Curtin, K. M., & Montello, D. R. (Eds.) (2023). Collective spatial cognition: A research agenda. London: Routledge.   Routledge page here
• Montello, D. R. (Ed.) (2018). Handbook of behavioral and cognitive geography. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.   Elgar page here
• Montello, D. R., Grossner, K., & Janelle, D. G. (Eds.) (2014). Space in mind: Concepts for spatial learning and education. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  MIT  page here
• 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.  Springer  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.  COSIT page here

Articles and Chapters:

• Götz, F. M., Montello, D. R., Varnum, M. E. W., Luca, D., & Kenrick, D. T. (2025). A unified framework integrating psychology and geography. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–13.
• Kattenbeck, M., Giannopoulos, I., Alinaghi, N., Golab, A., & Montello, D. R. (2025). Predicting spatial familiarity by exploiting head and eye movements during pedestrian navigation in the real world. Scientific Reports.
• McWhorter, C., Hegarty, M., Baylis, K., Montello, D. R. (2025). Mapping the response: A survey of municipal firefighter navigation training and practices in the United States. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 123, 105446.
• Montello, D. R. (2025). Space syntax and spatial cognition: Some hits and misses. In L. Vaughan, J. Peponis, & R. C. Dalton (Eds.), Space syntax: Selected papers by Bill Hillier (pp. 593–622). London: UCL Press.
• Bae, C. J-H., Montello, D. R., & Hegarty, M. (2024). Wayfinding in pairs: Comparing the planning and navigation performance of dyads and individuals in a real-world environment. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7, 40. doi: 10.1186/s41235-024-00563-9.
• Kattenbeck, M., Montello, D. R., Raubal, M., & Giannopoulos, I. (2024). Is familiarity reflected in the spatial knowledge revealed by sketch maps? In B. Adams, A. L. Griffin, S. Scheider, & G. McKenzie (Eds.), 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (pp. 6:1–6:18). Proceedings of COSIT ‘24. LIPIcs 315.
• Giannopoulos, I., & Montello, D. R. (2023). Facilitating collective cognition during group wayfinding through the human eye. In K. M. Curtin & D. R. Montello (Eds.), Collective spatial cognition: A research agenda (pp. 100–114). London: Taylor & Francis.
• Montello, D. R., Curtin, K. M., C. Bae, & Mitchell, P. (2023). With a little help from my friends: an overview of collective spatial cognition. In K. M. Curtin & D. R. Montello (Eds.), Collective spatial cognition: A research agenda (pp. 3–33). London: Taylor & Francis.
• Montello, Daniel R., Davis, Rie C., Johnson, M., & Chrastil, E. R. (2023). The symmetry of pedestrian route choice. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 87, 102004
• Montello, D. R. (2022). Behavioral and cognitive geography (2nd ed.). In B. Warf (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in geography. New York: Oxford University Press, Added 11-29-2022. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/
• Montello, D. R., & Battersby, S. E. (2022). Another look at the "Mercator Effect" on global-scale cognitive maps: Not in areas but in directions. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(2), 468–486. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1931001.
• Moyes, H., Rigoli, L., Huette, S., Montello, D. R., Matlock, T., & Spivey, M. J. (2022). Darkness and the imagination: The role of environment in the development of spiritual belief. In C. Pappadopoulos & H. Moyes (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of light in archaeology (pp. 85–104). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198788218.013.4
• Montello, D. R. (2020). Geographic orientation, disorientation, and misorientation: A commentary on Fernandez Velasco and Casati. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 20(4), 306–313.
• Bae, C. J., & Montello, D. R. (2019). Dyadic route planning and navigation in collaborative wayfinding. In S. Timpf, C. Schlieder, M. Kattenbeck, B. Ludwig, & K. Stewart (Eds.), 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (pp. 24:1–24:20). Article No. 24, Proceedings of COSIT '19. LIPIcs 142.
• Dalton, R. C., Hoelscher, C., and Montello, D. R. (2019). Wayfinding as a social activity. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(142). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00142
• Montello, D. R. (2019). Twenty-five years of COSIT: A brief and tasty history In S. Timpf, C. Schlieder, M. Kattenbeck, B. Ludwig, & K. Stewart (Eds.), 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (pp. 20:1–20:3). Article No. 20, Proceedings of COSIT '19. LIPIcs 142.
• Bae, C. J.-H, & Montello, D. R. (2018). Representations of an urban ethnic neighbourhood: Residents' cognitive boundaries of Koreatown, Los Angeles. Built Environment, 44(2), 218–240. Special Issue on "Cognition and the city," J. Portugali (Ed.).
• Montello, D. R. (2018). Behavioral and cognitive geography: Introduction and overview. In D. R. Montello (Ed.), Handbook of behavioral and cognitive geography (pp. 3–15). Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Montello, D. R., Fabrikant, S. I., & Davies, C. (2018). Cognitive perspectives on cartography and other geographic information visualizations. In D. R. Montello (Ed.), Handbook of behavioral and cognitive geography (pp. 177–196). Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Montello, D. R. & Mark, D. M. (2018). The world, the computer, and the mind: How Andrew Frank helped make human language and cognition cornerstones of geographic information science. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(12), 2535–2550.
• Burte, H., & Montello, D. R. (2017). How sense-of-direction and learning intentionality relate to spatial knowledge acquisition in the environment. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2(18). doi: 10.1186/s41235-017-0057-4
• Gao, S., Janowicz, K., Montello, D. R., Hu, Y., Yang, J.-A., McKenzie, G., Ju, Y., Gong, L., Adams, B., & Yan, B. (2017). A data-synthesis-driven method for detecting and extracting vague cognitive regions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 31(6), 1245–1271.
• Montello, D. R. (2017). Landmarks are exaggerated. KI-Kuenstliche Intelligenz, 31(2), 193–197.
• Montello, D. R. (2017, May/Jun). Sources of information for human wayfinding on planet Earth. Navigation News: The Magazine of the Royal Institute of Navigation.
• Montello, D. R. (2017). Cognition and spatial behavior. In The international encyclopedia of geography: People, the Earth, environment, and technology. John Wiley/AAG. doi: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0498
• Phillips, D. W. & Montello, D. R. (2017). Defining the community of interest as thematic and cognitive regions. Political Geography, 61, 31–45.
• Montello, D. R. (2016). Behavioral methods for spatial cognition research. In R. Gifford (Ed.), Research methods for environmental psychology (pp. 161–181) . Wiley-Blackwell.
• Battersby, S., & Montello, D. R. (2015). Experimental Cartography Unit, Royal College of Art (U.K.). In M. Monmonier (Ed.), The history of cartography: Vol.6. Cartography in the twentieth century (pp. 418–419). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  
• Griffin, A. L., & Montello, D. R. (2015). Vision and discrimination. In M. Monmonier (Ed.), The history of cartography: Vol. 6. Cartography in the twentieth century (pp. 1055–1059). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Montello, D. R. (2015). Review of "Representing space in cognition: Interrelations of behaviour, language, and formal models," edited by Thora Tenbrink, Jan Wiener, & Christophe Claramunt. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29(4), 692–694.
• Montello, D. R. (2015). Experimental studies in psychology. In M. Monmonier (Ed.), The history of cartography: Vol. 6. Cartography in the twentieth century (pp.1080–1082). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Montello, D. R. (2015). Psychophysics. In M. Monmonier (Ed.), The history of cartography: Vol. 6. Cartography in the twentieth century (pp. 1082–1085). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Montello, D. R. (2015). Subject-testing in cartography. In M. Monmonier (Ed.), The history of cartography: Vol. 6. Cartography in the twentieth century (pp. 1070–1074). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  
• Rebich-Hespanha, S., Rice, R. E., Montello, D. R., Retzloff, S., Tien, S., & Hespanha, J. P. (2015). Image themes and frames in U.S. print news stories about climate change. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 9(4), 491–519.
• Phillips, D. W., & Montello, D. R. (2015). Relating local to global spatial knowledge: Heuristic influence of local features on direction estimates. Journal of Geography, 114(1), 3–14.
• Fabrikant, S. I., Maggi, S., & Montello, D. R. (2014). 3D network spatialization: Does it add depth to 2D representations of semantic proximity? In M. Duckham, E. Pebesma, K. Stewart, & A. U. Frank (Eds.), Proceedings of GIScience 2014 (pp. 34–47), LNCS 8728. Berlin: Springer.
• Montello, D. R. (2014). Spatial cognition and architectural space: Research perspectives. Architectural Design, 84(5), 74–79. Special Issue on "Empathetic space: The computation of human-centric architecture," C. Derix & A. Izaki (Eds.).
• Montello, D. R., Friedman, A., & Phillips, D. W. (2014). Vague cognitive regions in geography and geographic information science. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28(9), 1802–1820.
• Montello, D. R., Grossner, K. E., & Janelle, D. G. (Eds.) (2014). Concepts for spatial learning and education: An introduction. In D. R. Montello, K. E. Grossner, & D. G. Janelle (Eds.), Space in mind: Concepts for spatial learning and education (pp. 3–29). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Klippel, A., Tenbrink, T., & Montello, D. R. (2013). 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 (pp. 102–119). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  
• Montello, D. R. (2013). Review of "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space: New Perspectives on Geographic Information Research" edited by Martin Raubal, David M. Mark, & Andrew U. Frank. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 40, 1124–1125.
• Montello, D. R. (2013). Behavioral geography. In B. Warf (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in geography. New York: Oxford University Press, Added 2–26–2013. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/
  
• Montello, D. R. (2013). Scale, in geography. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of social & behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Oxford: Elsevier.
• Montello, D. R. (2013). Spatial cognition. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of social & behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Oxford: Elsevier.
• Friedman, A., Montello, D. R., & Burte, H. (2012). Location memory for dots in polygons vs. cities in regions: Evaluating the category adjustment model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 38, 1336–1351.
  
• Montello, D. R., & Moyes, H. (2012). Why dark zones are sacred: Turning to behavioral and cognitive science for answers. In H. Moyes (Ed.), Sacred darkness: A global perspective on the ritual use of caves (pp. 385–396). Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.
• Montello, D. R., & Raubal, M. (2012). Functions and applications of spatial cognition. In D. Waller & L. Nadel (Eds.), The APA handbook of spatial cognition (pp. 249–264). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Montello, D. R., & Xiao, D. (2011). Linguistic and cultural universality of the concept of sense-of-direction. In M. J. Egenhofer, N. A. Giudice, R. Moratz, & M. F. Worboys (Eds.), Spatial information theory (pp. 264–282). Proceedings of COSIT ‘11. Heidelberg: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6899.
• Loomis, J. M., Montello, D. R., & Klatzky, R. L. (2010). Reg Golledge as an interdisciplinary geographer: Interactions with psychology. Progress in Human Geography, 34, 685–688.
• Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., & Mark, D. M. (2010). The natural landscape metaphor in information visualization: The role of commonsense geomorphology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61, 253–270.
  
• Montello, D. R. (2010). You are where? The function and frustration of you-are-here (YAH) maps. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 10, 94–104. Special Issue on “You-are-here maps: Creating spatial awareness through map-like representations,” A. Klippel, S. Hirtle, & C. Davies (Eds.).
• 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.
  
• Montello, D. R. (2009). A conceptual model of the cognitive processing of environmental distance information. In K. S. Hornsby, C. Claramunt, M. Denis, & G. Ligozat (Eds.), Spatial information theory (pp. 1–17). Proceedings of COSIT ‘09. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5756.
• Montello, D. R. (2009). Cognitive geography. In R. Kitchin & N. Thrift (Eds.), International encyclopedia of human geography, Vol. 2 (pp. 160–166). Oxford Elsevier Science.
• Montello, D. R. (2009). Cognitive research in GIScience: Recent achievements and future prospects. Geography Compass, 3(5), 1824–1840.
• 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.
• Montello, D. R., & Hirtle, S. C. (2009). Reginald G. Golledge: In memoriam. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 9, 229–232.
• 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.
• Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Khooshabeh, P., & Montello, D. R. (2008). 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
• 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.
• Montello, D. R. (2007). The contribution of space syntax to a comprehensive theory of environmental psychology. In A. S. Kubat, Ö. Ertekin, Y. I. Güney, & E. Eyüboğlu (Eds.), 6th International Space Syntax Symposium Proceedings (pp. iv–1–iv–12). Istanbul, ITÜ Faculty of Architecture.
• 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.
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