I am a Professor of Geography at UCSB and Director of the Research Unit on Spatial Cognition and Choice.  My BA and MA degrees are from The University of New England (Australia) and my Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.  I am a behavioral geographer with an interest in spatial cognition, cognitive mapping, spatial knowledge acquisition, spatial abilities, and spatial decision making and choice behavior.  I have worked with pre-teens, teens and adults and with blind and vision impaired groups as well as mildly and moderately retarded people.  I have a longtime interest in finding the primitives on which spatial understanding is based.  I am also interested in the technology used in spatial representation in auditory, tactual and visual domains.
 

Selected references:

Golledge, R.G. (1992) Place recognition and wayfinding:  Making sense of space.  Geoforum, 23 (2). 199-214

Golledge, R.G. (1993) Geography and the disabled: A survey with special reference to vision impaired and blind populations.  Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 18, 63-85

Golledge, R.G. (1990) The conceptual and empirical basis of a general theory of spatial knowledge.  In M.M. Fischer, P. Nijkamp, and Y.Y. Papageorgiou (Eds.), Spatial choices and processes.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., pp. 147-168

Golledge, R.G. (1995) Primitives of Spatial Knowledge.  In T. Nyerges, R. Laurini, and M.J. Egenhofer (Eds.) Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for GIS.  Dordsecht: Kluwer Academic Press., pp. 29-44