Spatial Cognition An Interdisciplinary Approach to Representing and Processing Spatial Knowledge /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Freksa, Christian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Habel, Christopher (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wender, Karl F. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1404
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Geographical information systems.; Earth sciences.; Artificial Intelligence.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Earth Sciences, general.

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 hu...

Table of 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.