Spatial Cognition : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Representing and Processing Spatial Knowledge / edited by Christian Freksa, Christopher Habel, Karl F. Wender.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freksa, C., editor.

Habel, Christopher, editor.

Wender, Karl F., editor.

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Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 1404.

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1404

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Geographic information systems.

Earth sciences.

Artificial Intelligence.

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

Earth Sciences, general.

Local Subjects:

Artificial Intelligence.

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

Earth Sciences, general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 489 pages).

Edition:

First edition 1998.

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Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.

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Summary:

Research on spatial cognition is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary enterprise for the study of spatial representations and cognitive spatial processes, be they real or abstract, human or machine. Spatial cognition brings together a variety of - search methodologies: empirical investigations on human and animal orientation and navigation; studies of communicating spatial knowledge using language and graphical or other pictorial means; the development of formal models for r- resenting and processing spatial knowledge; and computer implementations to solve spatial problems, to simulate human or animal orientation and navigation behavior, or to reproduce spatial communication patterns. These approaches can interact in interesting and useful ways: Results from empirical studies call for formal explanations both of the underlying memory structures and of the processes operating upon them; we can develop and - plement operational computer models obeying the relationships between objects and events described by the formal models; we can empirically test the computer models under a variety of conditions, and we can compare the results to the - sults from the human or animal experiments. A disagreement between these results can provide useful indications towards the re nement of the models.

Contents:

Spatial Knowledge Acquisition and Spatial Memory

Allocentric and Egocentric Spatial Representations: Definitions, Distinctions, and Interconnections

The Route Direction Effect and its Constraints

Spatial Information and Actions

The Impact of Exogenous Factors on Spatial Coding in Perception and Memory

Judging Spatial Relations from Memory

Relations between the mental representation of extrapersonal space and spatial behavior

Representational Levels for the Perception of the Courses of Motion

Formal and Linguistic Models

How Space Structures Language

Shape Nouns and Shape Concepts: A Geometry for 'Corner'

Typicality Effects in the Categorization of Spatial Relations

The Use of Locative Expressions in Dependence of the Spatial Relation between Target and Reference Object in Two-Dimensional Layouts

Reference Frames for Spatial Inference in Text Understanding

Mental Models in Spatial Reasoning

Formal Models for Cognition - Taxonomy of Spatial Location Description and Frames of Reference

Spatial Representation with Aspect Maps

A Hierarchy of Qualitative Representations for Space

Spatial Reasoning with Topological Information

Navigation in Real and Virtual Worlds

A Taxonomy of Spatial Knowledge for Navigation and its Application to the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair

Human Place Learning in a Computer Generated Arena

Spatial Orientation and Spatial Memory Within a 'Locomotor Maze' for Humans

Behavioral experiments in spatial cognition using virtual reality

Spatial orientation in virtual environments: Background considerations and experiments.

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978-3-540-69342-0

9783540693420

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