Spatial Cognition VII : International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2010, Mt. Hood/Portland, OR, USA, August 15-19,02010, Proceedings / edited by Christoph Hölscher, Thomas F. Shipley, Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, John A Bateman, Nora S Newcombe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hölscher, Christoph, editor.

Shipley, Thomas F., editor.

Olivetti Belardinelli, Marta, editor.

Bateman, John A., editor.

Newcombe, Nora, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 6222.

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 6222

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer simulation.

Simulation and Modeling.

Local Subjects:

Simulation and Modeling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 347 pages) : 108 illustrations.

Edition:

First edition 2010.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This is the seventh volume of a series of books on fundamental research in spatial cognition. As with past volumes, the research presented here spans a broad range of research traditions, for spatial cognition concerns not just the basic spatial behavior of biological and artificial agents, but also the reasoning processes that allow spatial planning across broad spatial and temporal scales. Spatial information is critical for coordinated action and thus agents interacting with objects and moving among objects must be able to perceive spatial relations, learn about these relations, and act on them, or store the information for later use, either by themselves or communicated to others. Research on this problem has included both psychology, which works to understand how humans and other mobile organisms solve these problems, and computer science, which considers the nature of the information available in the world and a formal consideration of how these problems might be solved. Research on human spatial cognition also involves the application of representations and processes that may have evolved to handle object and location information to reasoning about higher-order problems, such as displaying non-spatial information in diagrams. Thus, work in s- tial cognition extends beyond psychology and computer science into many disciplines including geography and education. The Spatial Cognition conference offers one of the few forums for consideration of the issues spanning this broad academic range.

Contents:

Invited Talks

Individual Differences in Spatial Language and Way-Finding: The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Motivation

CogSketch: Sketch Understanding for Cognitive Science Research and for Education

The Refraction of Space: A Radical Reversal of Direction

Distance and Time

Investigating the Role of Goals and Environmental Structure on Memory for Distance and Time in Virtual Environments

The Spatial and Temporal Underpinnings of Social Distance

Navigation

The Role of Slope in Human Reorientation

Influence of Geometry and Objects on Local Route Choices during Wayfinding

Testing Landmark Identification Theories in Virtual Environments

Men to the East and Women to the Right: Wayfinding with Verbal Route Instructions

Science Education and Spatial Skill

Do All Science Disciplines Rely on Spatial Abilities? Preliminary Evidence from Self-report Questionnaires

Gestures in Geology: The Roles of Spatial Skills, Expertise, and Communicative Context

Using Analogical Mapping to Assess the Affordances of Scale Models Used in Earth and Environmental Science Education

Language

Aligning Spatial Perspective in Route Descriptions

The Role of Grammatical Aspect in the Dynamics of Spatial Descriptions

Implicit Spatial Length Modulates Time Estimates, But Not Vice Versa

Computational Modelling

Bio-inspired Architecture for Active Sensorimotor Localization

Color Binding in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory

Reference Frames

Human EEG Correlates of Spatial Navigation within Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames

Putting Egocentric and Allocentric into Perspective

Reference Frames Influence Spatial Memory Development within and Across Sensory Modalities

Do We Need to Walk for Effective Virtual Reality Navigation? Physical Rotations Alone May Suffice

Visual Attention in Spatial Reasoning

Eye Movements Reflect Reasoning with Mental Images but Not with Mental Models in Orientation Knowledge Tasks

An Eye-Tracking Study of Integrative Spatial Cognition over Diagrammatic Representations

Maps and Assistance

Enriching Spatial Knowledge through a Multiattribute Locational System

Interactive Assistance for Tour Planning

Verbally Annotated Tactile Maps - Challenges and Approaches

Generating Adaptive Route Instructions Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Language, Neuroscience and Education

Can Mirror-Reading Reverse the Flow of Time?.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-642-14749-4

9783642147494

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