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

ISBN-13: 9783540646037 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 489 str.

Christian Freksa;Christopher Habel;Karl F. Wender

Opis

This book constitutes the documentation of the results achieved within a proirity program on spatial cognition established by the German Science Foundation (DFG) in 1996 involving 13 research groups in Germany and leading scientists from abroad.
The 22 revised full papers included were first presented during a colloquium in fall 1997 and then went through a second round of thorough reviewing. The book is organized into three parts on spatial knowledge acquisition and spatial memory, formal and linguistic models, and navigation in real and virtual worlds. All in all the book is a unique report on the state-of-the art in the interdisciplinary research field of spatial cognition and its potential applications.

Spis treści

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.