Are there any cognitive models for visual navigation? I've seen a few neuroscience accounts of visual navigation and many A.I. projects, but no psychologically plausible accounts that actually solve the computational problem (i.e. produce a working model).

Obviously I realize that to ask for a general cognitive model of visual navigation would be too much, but surely someone has done some work on a small sub-domain (e.g. driving, navigating in video games, navigation in specific animals).

Any computational account along these lines would be appreciated, though a connectionist account would be preferred.
I wonder if any of the work using Act-R would be relevant.
See these Act-R publications with accompanying PDFs on


visual search
spatial reasoning and navigation


(apologies if they're not relevant, this is outside my comfort zone)