Almost every action and reaction made by competent children and adults involves the perception of the spatial locations of external objects and/or other people in relation to themselves. Equally significant is the generation of a clear perception of one’s own position in space together with an accurate knowledge of one’s own body parts, and posture, with respect to planning one’s closer proximity to (or avoidance of) the most salient objects, or persons, with whom we may wish to interact.
The aim for this module is to enhance each student’s ability to detect, locate and schematically represent salient spatial information as derived from either direct personal sensory experience, or those of imaginary spaces developed in their mind’s eye. Students will also learn to identify the relative and absolute locations of objects by their use of poly-sensory input modalities, and to both use and create external representational devices for storing encoded maps of real spatial events as they may occur in the physical world.