The Spatial Thinking Lab conducts research on Large Scale or Environmental Spatial Cognitive processes, including learning the layout of new environments, wayfinding and navigation in known environments, and representing and communicating spatial information. This research has contributed new measures, such as the Santa Barbara Sense-of-Direction Scale, and basic research on the nature individual differences in large scale spatial cognition. Current research, funded by a seed grant from the UCSB Center for Creative Biotechnologies, is focused on identifying fundamental differences in neurological and cognitive processes that differentiate people with a good vs. poor sense of direction.