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The ability to perceive, navigate, and explain space around us is essential in our everyday life: every day humans find their favorite coffee mug, make their way to work, hang their coat, and give directions to dinner guests with relative ease. How is this assorted set of tasks accomplished? How does the human mind structure the space around us and recognize the spatial relations between various objects? What happens when this ability is impaired? This course will attempt to answer these questions by sampling key concepts, theories, and experimental findings from a diverse set of disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics. We will get an overview of spatial cognition from multiple perspectives and draw analogies between different research paradigms.