Mental Representation and Processing of Geographic Knowledge A Computational Approach /

• Main Author: Barkowsky, Thomas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 2541
• Subjects: Application software.; Geographical information systems.; Cognitive psychology.; Artificial intelligence.; Earth sciences.; Computer science.; Computer Applications.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Cognitive Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence.; Earth Sciences, general.; Computer Science, general.
• Physical Description: X, 178 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540361947
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36194-4

In cognitive science, mental representations of spatial knowledge are metaphorically referred to as cognitive maps. However, investigations in cognitive psychology reveal that the cognitive map metaphor is inadequate and that more suitable conceptions of human spatial knowledge processing are needed. This book addresses mental processing of knowledge about geographic space from an AI point of view by presenting an experimental computational modeling approach. Results about human memory and visual mental imagery from cognitive psychology are combined with AI techniques of spatial and diagrammatic knowledge processing. The author develops the diagrammatic reasoning architecture MIRAGE as a comprehensive conception of human geographic knowledge processing.