Abstract: How is the configuration of the surrounding environment represented in human memory, and how does this spatial representation guide human navigation? These questions are being tackled by an endeavor of multiple disciplines including Psychology, Neuroscience, Geography, and Artificial Intelligence. This paper reviewed the research of our lab and collaborators addressing the above questions in three series of studies including intrinsic model of spatial memory, the allocentric and egocentric spatial updating, and body and environmental stabilized processing of spatial knowledge during locomotion

Key words: spatial memory, spatial frames of reference, spatial updating, body stabilized spatial process, environment stabilized spatial process