Jan Wiener

Professor Jan Wiener

  • Head of School of Psychology
  • Poole House P113, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

I am a Professor in the Psychology Department at Bournemouth University. Prior to coming to Bournemouth in 2009, I held principle investigator and post doc positions at the Cognitive Science Centre at Freiburg University (Germany), a CNRS in Paris (France), a Max Planck Institute in Tübingen (Germany) and the Cognitive Neuroscience Department in Tübingen (Germany). I received my Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2004 from the University of Tübingen (Germany)

Research

My research focuses on navigation and wayfinding, fundamental behavioural problems that involve multiple cognitive components and complex information processing. In order to address these issues I use an inter-disciplinary approach combining different methods such as behavioural navigation experiments, virtual reality techniques, eye-tracking, and cognitive modelling.

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Journal Articles

  • Goldenberg, V., Wiener, J., Cox, C., Hardman, D., 2026. A thematic synthesis of the experiences and perceptions of everyday wayfinding. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 110.
  • Estudillo, A.J., Dark, O., Wiener, J.M., Bate, S., 2025. No Association Between Face Recognition and Spatial Navigation: Evidence from Developmental Prosopagnosia and Super-Recognizers. Brain Sciences, 15 (11).
  • Green, M., Segen, V., Korstjens, A., Meso, A.I., Thomas, T., Wiener, J.M., 2025. Foraging with your eyes: a novel task to study cognitive strategies involved in (visual) foraging behaviour. Cognitive Processing, 26 (3), 541-554.
  • Coutrot, A., Kievit, R.A., Ritchie, S.J., Manley, E., Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Dalton, R.C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2025. Education Is Positively and Causally Linked With Spatial Navigation Ability Across the Lifespan. Open Mind, 9, 926-939.
  • Griesbauer, E.M., Fernandez Velasco, P., Coutrot, A., Wiener, J.M., Morley, J.G., McNamee, D., Manley, E., Spiers, H.J., 2025. London taxi drivers exploit neighbourhood boundaries for hierarchical route planning. Cognition, 256.
  • Wiener, J.M., Bassett, C., Bentall, S., Black, C., 2025. Interplay of wayfinding strategies in route repetition and route retracing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78 (1), 1-8.
  • Goodroe, S., Velasco, P.F., Gahnstrom, C.J., Wiener, J., Coutrot, A., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2025. Predicting real-world navigation performance from a virtual navigation task in older adults. Plos One, 20 (1 January).
  • Nicholls, V.I., Wiener, J., Meso, A.I., Miellet, S., 2024. The impact of perceptual complexity on road crossing decisions in younger and older adults. Scientific Reports, 14 (1).
  • Bird, E., Wiener, J., Huang, C.Y., Attard-Johnson, J., 2024. The efficacy of the Self-Administered Interview: A systematic review. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 21 (3).
  • Bird, E., Wiener, J., Attard-Johnson, J., 2024. The efficacy of the Self-Administered Interview in minimising the misinformation effect. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38 (1).
  • Alcock, M., Wiener, J.M., Hardman, D., 2024. Searching in an unfamiliar environment: a phenomenologically informed experiment. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
  • Walkowiak, S., Coutrot, A., Hegarty, M., Velasco, P.F., Wiener, J.M., Dalton, R.C., Hölscher, C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., Manley, E., 2023. Cultural determinants of the gap between self-estimated navigation ability and wayfinding performance: evidence from 46 countries. Scientific Reports, 13 (1).
  • Hilton, C., Wiener, J., 2023. Route sequence knowledge supports the formation of cognitive maps. Hippocampus, 33 (11), 1161-1170.
  • Fernandez-Velasco, P., Coutrot, A., Oloye, H., Wiener, J.M., Dalton, R.C., Holscher, C., Manley, E., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2023. No link between handedness and spatial navigation: Evidence from over 400 000 participants in 41 countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 290 (2008).
  • Yesiltepe, D., Fernández Velasco, P., Coutrot, A., Ozbil Torun, A., Wiener, J.M., Holscher, C., Hornberger, M., Conroy Dalton, R., Spiers, H.J., 2023. Entropy and a sub-group of geometric measures of paths predict the navigability of an environment. Cognition, 236.
  • Laczo, J., Laczo, M., Martinkovic, L., Lerch, O., Vyhnalek, M., Hort, J., Wiener, J., 2023. Spatial navigation deficits are associated with a specific pattern of brain atrophy in normal and pathological ageing. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, 30, 81.
  • Heward, M., Hicks, B., Hedges, B., Gaden, R., Wiener, J.M., 2023. Experiences of age-related declining navigation abilities and impact on use of outdoor environments: a qualitative study of young-old adults with self-reported memory difficulties. Ageing and Society.
  • Coutrot, A., Lazar, A.S., Richards, M., Manley, E., Wiener, J.M., Dalton, R.C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2022. Reported sleep duration reveals segmentation of the adult life-course into three phases. Nature Communications, 13 (1).
  • Heward, M., Adams, A., Hicks, B., Wiener, J., 2022. 'We go for a homely feel ... not the clinical dementia side': Care home managers' experiences of supporting residents with dementia to orientate and navigate care environments. Ageing and Society, 42 (7), 1659-1685.
  • Laczó, M., Martinkovic, L., Lerch, O., Wiener, J.M., Kalinova, J., Matuskova, V., Nedelska, Z., Vyhnalek, M., Hort, J., Laczó, J., 2022. Different Profiles of Spatial Navigation Deficits In Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker-Positive Versus Biomarker-Negative Older Adults With Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14.
  • Nicholls, V.I., Wiener, J.M., Meso, A.I., Miellet, S., 2022. The Relative Contribution of Executive Functions and Aging on Attentional Control During Road Crossing. Frontiers in Psychology, 13.
  • Segen, V., Colombo, G., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Wiener, J.M., 2022. The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation. Attention Perception and Psychophysics, 84 (4), 1208-1219.
  • Coutrot, A., Manley, E., Goodroe, S., Gahnstrom, C., Filomena, G., Yesiltepe, D., Dalton, R.C., Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2022. Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability. Nature, 604 (7904), 104-110.
  • Segen, V., Avraamides, M.N., Slattery, T.J., Wiener, J.M., 2022. Age-related changes in visual encoding strategy preferences during a spatial memory task. Psychological Research, 86 (2), 404-420.
  • O’Malley, M., Innes, A., Wiener, J.M., 2022. (Dis)orientation and Design Preferences Within an Unfamiliar Care Environment: A Content Analysis of Older Adults’ Qualitative Reports After Route Learning. Environment and Behavior, 54 (1), 116-142.
  • Griesbauer, E.M., Manley, E., Wiener, J.M., Spiers, H.J., 2022. London taxi drivers: A review of neurocognitive studies and an exploration of how they build their cognitive map of London. Hippocampus, 32 (1), 3-20.
  • Hilton, C., Wiener, J., Johnson, A., 2021. Serial memory for landmarks encountered during route navigation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74 (12), 2137-2153.
  • Wiener, J.M., Pazzaglia, F., 2021. Ageing- and dementia-friendly design: theory and evidence from cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and environmental psychology can contribute to design guidelines that minimise spatial disorientation. Cognitive Processing, 22 (4), 715-730.
  • Segen, V., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Colombo, G., Wiener, J.M., 2021. Comparable performance on a spatial memory task in data collected in the lab and online. Plos One, 16 (11 November).
  • Laczó, M., Wiener, J.M., Kalinova, J., Matuskova, V., Vyhnalek, M., Hort, J., Laczó, J., 2021. Spatial navigation and visuospatial strategies in typical and atypical aging. Brain Sciences, 11 (11).
  • Grzeschik, R., Hilton, C., Dalton, R.C., Konovalova, I., Cotterill, E., Innes, A., Wiener, J.M., 2021. From repeating routes to planning novel routes: the impact of landmarks and ageing on route integration and cognitive mapping. Psychological Research, 85 (6), 2164-2176.
  • Segen, V., Colombo, G., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Wiener, J.M., 2021. Perspective taking and systematic biases in object location memory. Attention Perception and Psychophysics, 83 (5), 2033-2051.
  • Segen, V., Avraamides, M.N., Slattery, T.J., Wiener, J.M., 2021. Age-related differences in visual encoding and response strategies contribute to spatial memory deficits. Memory and Cognition, 49 (2), 249-264.
  • Hilton, C., Johnson, A., Slattery, T.J., Miellet, S., Wiener, J.M., 2021. The impact of cognitive aging on route learning rate and the acquisition of landmark knowledge. Cognition, 207.
  • Hilton, C., Muffato, V., Slattery, T.J., Miellet, S., Wiener, J., 2020. Differences in Encoding Strategy as a Potential Explanation for Age-Related Decline in Place Recognition Ability. Frontiers in Psychology, 11.
  • Hilton, C., Miellet, S., Slattery, T.J., Wiener, J., 2020. Are age-related deficits in route learning related to control of visual attention? Psychological Research, 84 (6), 1473-1484.
  • Wiener, J.M., Carroll, D., Moeller, S., Bibi, I., Ivanova, D., Allen, P., Wolbers, T., 2020. A novel virtual-reality-based route-learning test suite: Assessing the effects of cognitive aging on navigation. Behavior Research Methods, 52 (2), 630-640.
  • Allen, P.J., Wiener, J.M., Gatzidis, C., Stringer, C.B., Stewart, J.R., 2019. Investigating the Effect of the Environment on Prey Detection Ability in Humans. Scientific Reports, 9 (1).
  • Muffato, V., Hilton, C., Meneghetti, C., De Beni, R., Wiener, J.M., 2019. Evidence for age-related deficits in object-location binding during place recognition. Hippocampus, 29 (10), 971-979.
  • Grzeschik, R., Conroy-Dalton, R., Innes, A., Shanker, S., Wiener, J.M., 2019. The contribution of visual attention and declining verbal memory abilities to age-related route learning deficits. Cognition, 187, 50-61.
  • Allen, P.J., Wiener, J.M., Gatzidis, C., Stringer, C.B., Stewart, J.R., 2019. Investigating the Effect of the Environment on Prey Detection Ability in Humans. Scientific Reports, 9 (1).
  • Coutrot, A., Schmidt, S., Coutrot, L., Pittman, J., Hong, L., Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Dalton, R.C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2019. Virtual navigation tested on a mobile app is predictive of real-world wayfinding navigation performance. Plos One, 14 (3).
  • Brown, P., Zhou, Y., Tan, A.C., El-Esawi, M.A., Liehr, T., Blanck, O., Gladue, D.P., Almeida, G.M.F., Cernava, T., Sorzano, C.O., Yeung, A.W.K., Engel, M.S., Chandrasekaran, A.R., Muth, T., Staege, M.S., Daulatabad, S.V., Widera, D., Zhang, J., Meule, A., Honjo, K., Pourret, O., Yin, C.C., Zhang, Z., Cascella, M., Flegel, W.A., Goodyear, C.S., van Raaij, M.J., Bukowy-Bieryllo, Z., Campana, L.G., Kurniawan, N.A., Lalaouna, D., Hüttner, F.J., Ammerman, B.A., Ehret, F., Cobine, P.A., Tan, E.C., Han, H., Xia, W., McCrum, C., Dings, R.P.M., Marinello, F., Nilsson, H., Nixon, B., Voskarides, K., Yang, L., Costa, V.D., Bengtsson-Palme, J., Bradshaw, W., Grimm, D.G., Kumar, N., Martis, E., Prieto, D., Sabnis, S.C., Amer, S.E.D.R., Liew, A.W.C., Perco, P., Rahimi, F., Riva, G., Zhang, C., Devkota, H.P., Ogami, K., Basharat, Z., Fierz, W., Siebers, R., Tan, K.H., Boehme, K.A., Brenneisen, P., Brown, J.A.L., Dalrymple, B.P., Harvey, D.J., Ng, G., Werten, S., Bleackley, M., Dai, Z., Dhariwal, R., Gelfer, Y., Hartmann, M.D., Miotla, P., Tamaian, R., Govender, P., Gurney-Champion, O.J., Kauppila, J.H., Zhang, X., Echeverría, N., Subhash, S., Sallmon, H., Tofani, M., Bae, T., Bosch, O., Cuív, P.O., Danchin, A., Diouf, B., Eerola, T., Evangelou, E., Filipp, F., Klump, H., Kurgan, L., Smith, S.S., Terrier, O., Tuttle, N., 2019. Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search. Database, 2019, 1-67.
  • Lokka, I.E., Çöltekin, A., Wiener, J., Fabrikant, S.I., Röcke, C., 2018. Virtual environments as memory training devices in navigational tasks for older adults. Scientific Reports, 8 (1).
  • Coutrot, A., Silva, R., Manley, E., de Cothi, W., Sami, S., Bohbot, V.D., Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Dalton, R.C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2018. Global Determinants of Navigation Ability. Current Biology, 28 (17), 2861-2866.e4.
  • O'Malley, M., Innes, A., Muir, S., Wiener, J.M., 2018. 'All the corridors are the same': A qualitative study of the orientation experiences and design preferences of UK older adults living in a communal retirement development. Ageing and Society, 38 (9), 1791-1816.
  • Ring, M., Gaigg, S.B., de Condappa, O., Wiener, J.M., Bowler, D.M., 2018. Spatial navigation from same and different directions: The role of executive functions, memory and attention in adults with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 11 (5), 798-810.
  • O’Malley, M., Innes, A., Wiener, J.M., 2018. How do we get there? Effects of cognitive aging on route memory. Memory and Cognition, 46 (2), 274-284.
  • Miller, J.K., McDougall, S., Thomas, S., Wiener, J., 2017. The impact of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene on trauma and spatial processing. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 6 (12).
  • Grison, E., Gyselinck, V., Burkhardt, J.M., Wiener, J.M.. Route planning with transportation network maps: an eye-tracking study. Psychological Research, 81 (5).
  • Lester, A.W., Moffat, S.D., Wiener, J.M., Barnes, C.A., Wolbers, T., 2017. The Aging Navigational System. Neuron, 95 (5), 1019-1035.
  • Hartmeyer, S., Grzeschik, R., Wolbers, T., Wiener, J.M., 2017. The effects of attentional engagement on route learning performance in a virtual environment: An aging study. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 9 (JUL).
  • O’Malley, M., Innes, A., Wiener, J.M., 2017. Decreasing spatial disorientation in care-home settings: How psychology can guide the development of dementia friendly design guidelines. Dementia, 16 (3), 315-328.
  • Miller, J.K., McDougall, S., Thomas, S., Wiener, J.M., 2017. Impairment in active navigation from trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 140, 114-123.
  • Lisofsky, N., Wiener, J., de Condappa, O., Gallinat, J., Lindenberger, U., Kühn, S., 2016. Differences in navigation performance and postpartal striatal volume associated with pregnancy in humans. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 134 (Part B), 400-407.
  • Grison, E., Gyselinck, V., Burkhardt, J.M., Wiener, J.M., 2016. Route planning with transportation network maps: an eye-tracking study. Psychological Research, 1-15.
  • de Condappa, O., Wiener, J.M., 2016. Human place and response learning: navigation strategy selection, pupil size and gaze behavior. Psychological Research, 80 (1), 82-93.
  • de Condappa, O., Wiener, J.M., 2016. Human place and response learning: navigation strategy selection, pupil size and gaze behavior. Psychological Research, 80 (1), 82-93.
  • Strickrodt, M., O'Malley, M., Wiener, J.M., 2015. This place looks familiar-how navigators distinguish places with ambiguous landmark objects when learning novel routes. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 (DEC).
  • Miller, J.K., Wiener, J.M., 2014. PTSD recovery, spatial processing, and the val66met polymorphism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 (1 FEB).
  • Wolbers, T., Wiener, J.M., 2014. Challenges for identifying the neural mechanisms that support spatial navigation: the impact of spatial scale. Front Hum Neurosci, 8, 571.
  • Wiener, J.M., de Condappa, O., Harris, M.A., Wolbers, T., 2013. Maladaptive bias for extrahippocampal navigation strategies in aging humans. J Neurosci, 33 (14), 6012-6017.
  • Hills, T., Kalff, C., Wiener, J.M.. Adaptive Lévy Walks and Area-restricted Search in Human Foraging. PLoS One, 8 (4).
  • Hills, T.T., Kalff, C., Wiener, J.M., 2013. Adaptive Lévy Processes and Area-Restricted Search in Human Foraging. PLoS ONE, 8 (4).
  • Wiener, J., de Condappa, O., Harris, M.A., Wolbers, T., 2013. Maladaptive bias for extrahippocampal navigation strategies in aging humans. The Journal of Neuroscience.
  • Harris, M.A., Wiener, J.M., Wolbers, T., 2012. Aging specifically impairs switching to an allocentric navigational strategy. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 4 (OCT).
  • Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Büchner, S., Konieczny, L., 2012. Gaze behaviour during space perception and spatial decision making. Psychological Research, 76 (6), 713-729.
  • Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Büchner, S., Konieczny, L., 2012. Gaze behaviour during space perception and spatial decision making. Psychological Research, 76 (6), 713-729.
  • Wiener, J.M., Kmecova, H., de Condappa, O., 2012. Route repetition and route retracing: Effects of cognitive aging. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 4 (MAY).
  • Wiener, J.M., Tenbrink, T., Holscher, C., 2012. Would you follow your own route description? COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 13, S13.
  • Harris, M.A., Wiener, J., Wolbers, T., 2012. Aging specifically impairs switching to an allocentric navigational strategy. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 4 (29).
  • Wiener, J., Kmecova, H., de Condappa, O., 2012. Route repetition and route retracing: effects of cognitive aging. Frontiers.in Aging Neuroscience, 4, 7.
  • Wiener, J., Shettleworth, S., Bingman, V.P., Cheng, K., Healy, S., Jacobs, L.F., Jeffery, K.J., Mallot, H.A., Menzel, R., Newcombe, N.S., 2011. Animal navigation: A synthesis. , 51-76.
  • Wiener, J.M., Berthoz, A., Wolbers, T., 2011. Dissociable cognitive mechanisms underlying human path integration. Experimental Brain Research, 208 (1), 61-71.
  • Hölscher, C., Tenbrink, T., Wiener, J.M., 2011. Would you follow your own route description? Cognitive strategies in urban route planning. Cognition, 121 (2), 228-247.
  • Meilinger, T., Berthoz, A., Wiener, J.M., 2011. The Integration of Spatial Information across Different Viewpoints. Memory & Cognition, 39, 1042-1054.
  • Tenbrink, T., Wiener, J., Claramunt, C., Avraamides, M., Malaka, R., Mallot, H.A., 2010. Spatial behavior and linguistic representation: Collaborative interdisciplinary specialized workshop. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1 (2010), 115-120.
  • Tenbrink, T., Claramunt, C., Wiener, J.M., Avraamidis, M., Malaka, R., Mallot, H.A., 2010. Spatial behaviour and linguistic representation: Collaborative interdisciplinary specialized workshop. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 115-120.
  • Wiener, J.M., Büchner, S.J., Hölscher, C., 2009. Taxonomy of human wayfinding tasks: A knowledge-based approach. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 9 (2), 152-165.
  • Wiener, J.M., Ehbauer, N.N., Mallot, H.A., 2009. Planning paths to multiple targets: Memory involvement and planning heuristics in spatial problem solving. Psychological Research, 73 (5), 644-658.
  • Ragni, M., Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Brösamle, M., Büchner, S.J., Kalff, C., Kuhnmünch, G., Strube, G., 2009. Human Spatial Cognition: Cognitive Science Joins AI and Robotics. Künstliche Intell., 23, 46-49.
  • Franz, G., Wiener, J.M., 2008. From space syntax to space semantics: A behaviorally and perceptually oriented methodology for the efficient description of the geometry and topology of environments. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 35 (4), 574-592.
  • Wiener, J.M., Lafon, M., Berthoz, A., 2008. Path planning under spatial uncertainty. Memory and Cognition, 36 (3), 495-504.
  • Wiener, J.M., Tenbrink, T., 2008. Traveling Salesman Problem: The Human Case. KI: Themenheft KI und Kognition, 1, 18-22.
  • Wiener, J.M., Ehbauer, N.N., Mallot, H.A., 2008. Planning paths to multiple targets: memory involvement and planning heuristics in spatial problem solving. Psychological Research, 1-15.
  • Wiener, J.M., Franz, G., Rossmanith, N., Reichelt, A., Mallot, H.A., Bülthoff, H.H., 2007. Isovist analysis captures properties of space relevant for locomotion and experience. Perception, 36 (7), 1066-1083.
  • Wolbers, T., Wiener, J.M., Mallot, H.A., Büchel, C., 2007. Differential recruitment of the hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex, and the human motion complex during path integration in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 27 (35), 9408-9416.
  • Brembs, B., Wiener, J., 2006. Context and occasion setting in Drosophila visual learning. Learning and Memory, 13 (5), 618-628.
  • Wiener, J.M., Mallot, H.A., 2006. Path complexity does not impair visual path integration. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 6 (4), 333-346.
  • Wiener, J.M., Schnee, A., Mallot, H.A., 2004. Use and interaction of navigation strategies in regionalized environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 24 (4), 475-493.
  • Wiener, J.M., Mallot, H.A., 2003. 'Fine-to-coarse' route planning and navigation in regionalized environments. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 3 (4), 331-358.

Books

  • Wiener, J.M., 2004. Places and Regions in Perception, Route Planning, and Spatial Memory. Online publication service TOBIAS-lib.
  • several contributors. Representing Space in Cognition: Behaviour, Language, and Formal Models. Oxford University Press.

Chapters

  • Wiener, J.M., Meilinger, T., 2018. Spatial Biases in Navigation and Wayfinding. Spatial Biases in Perception and Cognition. 324-335.
  • Emo, B., Hölscher, C., Wiener, J.M., Dalton, R.C., 2012. Wayfinding and spatial configuration:evidence from street corners. Proceedings of the 8th Space Syntax Symposion. Space Syntax.
  • Buechner, S.J., Wiener, J., Hölscher, C., 2012. Methodological triangulation to assess sign placement. 185-188.
  • Wiener, J.M., Shettleworth, S., Bingman, V.P., Cheng, K., Healy, S., Jacobs, L.F., Jeffery, K., Mallot, H.A., Menzel, R., Newcombe, N.S., 2011. Animal navigation - a synthesis. In: Menzel, R., Fischer, J., eds. Animal Thinking: Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 52-76.
  • Kallf, C., Hills, T., Wiener, J.M., 2010. Human foraging behavior: A virtual reality investigation on area restricted search in humans. CogSci 2010: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
  • Terziman, L., Lécuyer, A., Hillaire, S., Wiener, J.M., 2009. Can camera motions improve the perception of traveled distance in virtual environments? 131-134.
  • Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Büchner, S., Konieczny, L., 2009. How the Geometry of Space controls Visual Attention during Spatial Decision Making. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, 2286-2291.
  • Büchner, S.J., Hölscher, C., Wiener, J.M., 2009. Search Strategies and their Success in a Virtual Maze. Proceedings of the 31tst Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, 1066-1071.
  • Gerstmayr, L., Mallot, H.A., Wiener, J.M., 2008. A minimalistic model of visually guided obstacle avoidance and path selection behavior. 87-103.
  • Hurlebaus, R., Basten, K., Mallot, H.A., Wiener, J.M., 2008. Route learning strategies in a virtual cluttered environment. 104-120.
  • Wiener, J.M., Tenbrink, T., Henschel, J., Hölscher, C., 2008. Situated and Prospective Path Planning: Route Choice in an Urban Environment. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, 851-856.
  • Wiener, J.M., Meilinger, T., Berthoz, A., 2008. The Integration of Spatial Information across Different Perspectives. CogSci 2008: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, 2031-2036.
  • Riecke, B.E., Wiener, J.M., 2007. Can people not tell left from right in VR? Point-to-origin studies revealed qualitative errors in visual path integration. 3-10.
  • Tenbrink, T., Wiener, J.M., 2007. Wayfinding strategies in behavior and language: A symmetric and interdisciplinary approach to cognitive processes. 401-420.
  • Riecke, B.E., Wiener, J.M., 2006. Point-to-origin experiments in VR revealed novel qualitative errors in visual path integration. 156.
  • Wiener, J.M., Ehbauer, N.N., Mallot, H.A., 2006. Path planning and optimization in the traveling salesman problem: Nearest neighbor vs. region-based strategies. Proceedings of the Dagstuhl Seminar 05491"Spatial Cognition: Specialization and Integration". Dagstuhl Seminar.
  • Wiener, J.M., Franz, G., 2005. Isovists as a means to predict spatial experience and behavior. 42-57.
  • Franz, G., Mallot, H.A., Wiener, J.M., 2005. Graph-based models of space in architecture and cognitive science- a comparative analysis. Architecture, Engineering and Construction of Build Environment. Windsor, Ontario, Canada: International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, 30-38.
  • Franz, G., Wiener, J.M., 2005. Exploring isovist-based correlates of spatial behavior and experience. 5th International Space Syntax Symposium, Proceedings Volume II. Space Syntax, 503-517.

Conferences

  • Laczo, M., Kalinova, J., Vyhnalek, M., Hort, J., Wiener, J., Laczo, J., 2022. Visuospatial Navigation Strategies in Typical and Atypical Aging. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, 29, 146.
  • Laczo, J., Laczo, M., Kalinova, J., Vyhnalek, M., Hort, J., Wiener, J., 2022. Spatial navigation distinguishes Alzheimer's disease and non Alzheimer's pathologic change and relates to CSF biomarkers. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, 29, 376.
  • Parizkova, M., Kalinova, J., Vyhnalek, M., Hort, J., Wiener, J., Laczo, J., 2021. Spatial navigation and scene exploration in biomarker-defined early Alzheimer's disease. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, 28, 296.
  • Heward, M., Adams, A., Hicks, B., Wiener, J., 2020. Manager’s experiences of supporting residents to navigate care homes. In: 15th United Kingdom Dementia Congress 10/11/2020 virtual.
  • Parizkova, M., Wiener, J., Kalinova, J., Vyhnalek, M., Matoska, V., Kaplan, V., Hort, J., Laczo, J., 2019. Virtual navigation assessment and APOE genotype in early Alzheimer's disease. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, 26, 198.
  • Segen, V., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Wiener, J., 2019. Age-related differences in the use of distal landmarks during object-location encoding. I-PERCEPTION, 10, 17.
  • Coutrot, A., Silva, R., Manley, E., de Cothi, W., Sami, S., Bohbot, V.D., Wiener, J.M., Holscher, C., Dalton, R.C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2019. Testing the Navigation Skills of 3.7 Million Participants With a Video Game. PERCEPTION, 48, 6.
  • Muffato, V., Meneghetti, C., Wiener, J., 2018. Spatial representations: New perspectives for studying age-related differences. COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 19, S23-S24.
  • Muffato, V., Hilton, C., De Beni, R., Wiener, J., 2018. Age-related differences in the ability to recognize swapped positions of objects. COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 19, S24.
  • Hilton, C., Johnson, A., Wiener, J., 2018. Aging and route learning: What is the role of sequence knowledge? COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 19, S25.
  • Grzeschik, R., Dalton, R.C., Innes, A., Wiener, J., 2018. Effects of cognitive ageing on finding and selecting reliable landmarks. COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 19, S32.
  • Wiener, 2016. The effects of typical and atypical ageing on orientation and navigation behaviour. In: iNAV 2016 26/06/2016 Bad Gastein, Austria.
  • Ramsey, C., Gatzidis, C., Miellet, S., Wiener, J., 2016. Visual search during navigation in complex virtual environments: an eyetracking study. PERCEPTION, 45, 6-7.
  • van der Ham, I., Wiener, J., Meilinger, T., 2015. Individual differences in wayfinding. COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 16, S34.
  • O'Malley, M., Innes, A., Wiener, J., 2015. Reducing spatial disorientation for older adults with memory difficulties: Towards dementia-friendly architecture. COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 16, S40.
  • O'Malley, M., Innes, A., Wiener, J., 2015. Do you still know how to get there? Effects of cognitive ageing on route memory. COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 16, S34.
  • Kmecova, H., Araci, D., Moya, P., Wiener, J., 2013. How do we read YAH maps? An Eye-Tracking. In: 1st International Workshop on Eye Tracking for Spatial Research 02/09/2013 Scarborough.
  • Ragni, M., Wiener, J.M., 2012. Constraints, Inferences, and the Shortest Path: Which paths do we prefer? In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 01/08/2012 Sapporo, Japan. Sapporo, Japan: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Harris, M.A., Wiener, J.M., Wolbers, T., 2012. Older people exhibit a specific deficit in navigational strategy switching. COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 13, S42.
  • Meilinger, T., Berthoz, A., Wiener, J.M., 2011. The integration of spatial information across different viewpoints. Memory and Cognition, 39 (6), 1042-1054.
  • Wiener, J.M., de Condappa, O., Hölscher, C., 2011. Do you have to look where you go? Gaze behaviour during spatial decision making. In: CogSci 2011: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 20/07/2011 Boston, MA, USA. Cognitive Science Society.
  • Wiener, J., Konieczny, L., Hoelscher, C., Buechner, S., 2009. How the geometry of space controls visual attention during wayfinding. COGNITIVE PROCESSING, 10, S137.
  • Tenbrink, T., Wiener, J., 2009. The verbalization of multiple strategies in a variant of the traveling salesperson problem. Cognitive Processing, 10 (2), 143-161.
  • Riecke, B.E., Wiener, J.M., 2006. Point-to-origin experiments in VR revealed novel qualitative errors in visual path integration. ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Research Posters SIGGRAPH 2006.
  • Wiener, J.M., Franz, G., 2004. Isovists as a Means to Predict Spatial Experience and Behavior. Spatial Cognition, 3343, 42-57 Springer.

Reports

Posters

  • Ramsey, C., Gatzidis, C., Miellet, S., wiener, J., 2016. Visual search during navigation in complex virtual environments: an eyetracking study. In: ECVP2016: 39th European Conference on Visual Perception.
  • O'Malley, M., Innes, Muir, S., Wiener, J., 2016. The Orientation Experiences and Design Preferences of Residents Living in a Retirement Development. In: Alzheimer’s Disease International.
  • O'Malley, Innes, Wiener, 2016. How do we get there? The effects of cognitive ageing on map reading abilities. In: iNAV 2016.
  • Grzeschik, Conroy Dalton, R., Innes, Wiener, J.A.N., 2016. Effects of Aging on Landmark Recognition. In: iNAV 2016.

Preprints

  • Griesbauer, E.-M., Fernandez Velasco, P., Coutrot, A., Wiener, J., Morley, J., McNamee, D., Manley, E., Spiers, H., 2024. London taxi drivers exploit neighbourhood boundaries for hierarchical route planning.
  • Colombo, G., Minta, K., Thrash, T., Grübel, J., Wiener, J., Avraamides, M., Taylor, W., Hölscher, C., Schinazi, V., 2024. Beyond Traditional Assessments of Cognitive Status: Exploring the Potential of Spatial Navigation Tasks.
  • Goodroe, S., Fernandez Velasco, P., Gahnstrom, C., Wiener, J., Coutrot, A., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H., 2024. Predicting real-world navigation performance from a virtual navigation task in older adults.
  • Fernandez-Velasco, P., Coutrot, A., Oloye, H., Wiener, J.M., Dalton, R.C., Hoelscher, C., Manley, E., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2023. Handedness and its association with education and spatial navigation assessed in over 400,000 participants across 41 countries.
  • Walkowiak, S., Coutrot, A., Wiener, J.M., Hornberger, M., Manley, E., Spiers, H.J., 2023. From overconfidence to task dropout in a spatial navigation test: evidence for the Dunning-Kruger effect across 46 countries.
  • Walkowiak, S., Coutrot, A., Hegarty, M., Velasco, P.F., Wiener, J.M., Dalton, R.C., Hölscher, C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., Manley, E., 2022. Cultural determinants of the gap between self-estimated navigation ability and wayfinding performance: evidence from 46 countries.
  • Segen, V., Colombo, G., Avraamides, M., Slattery, T., Wiener, J., 2021. The role of memory and perspective shifts in systematic biases during object location estimation.
  • Griesbauer, E.-M., Manley, E., Wiener, J., Spiers, H., 2021. Learning ‘The Knowledge’: How London Taxi Drivers Build Their Cognitive Map of London.
  • Coutrot, A., Manley, E., Goodroe, S., Gahnstrom, C., Filomena, G., Yesiltepe, D., Dalton, R.C., Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2020. Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability.
  • Coutrot, A., Schmidt, S., Coutrot, L., Pittman, J., Hong, L., Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Dalton, R.C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2018. Virtual navigation tested on a mobile app is predictive of real-world wayfinding navigation performance.
  • Coutrot, A., Silva, R., Manley, E., de Cothi, W., Sami, S., Bohbot, V.D., Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Dalton, R.C., Hornberger, M., Spiers, H.J., 2017. Global determinants of navigation ability.

Others

PhD Students

  • Christopher Hilton
  • Mary O'Malley. Dementia & Wayfinding
  • Peter Allen
  • Olivier de Condappa. Visual Attention and Wayfinding
  • Chris Ramsey. Eye-tracking in Virtual Environments
  • Jessica Miller. PTSD & Wayfinding
  • Vladislava Segen. Ageing, Visual Cognition and Place Recognition

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Programme Leader of "MSc in Lifespan Neuropsychology"

Profile of Teaching UG

  • ViSC - Visual and Spatial Cognition, year 3

Grants

  • Dementia-friendly architecture: Reducing Spatial Disorientation in Dementia Care Homes (ESRC, 01 Oct 2015). Awarded
  • Dementia-friendly architecture: Reducing Spatial Disorientation in Dementia Care Homes (ESRC, 01 Oct 2015). Awarded
  • Wayfinding Strategies in Behaviour and Language (Volkswagen Foundation). Completed
  • The cognitive architecture underlying human wayfinding (DFG (German Research Council)). Completed
  • Cues for Decision- Making & Wayfinding in Intelligent Buildings (Cisco Systems). In Progress

Qualifications

  • Dr rer. nat in Cognitive Neuroscience (Tübingen University / Germany, 2004)
  • Dipl. Biol in Biology (Würzburg University / Germany, 2000)

Memberships

  • Experimental Psychology Society, Member,
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