Main description:
Spatial Cognition brings together psychology, computer science, linguistics and geography, discussing how people think about space (our internal cognitive maps and spatial perception) and how we communicate about space, for instance giving route directions or using spatial metaphors. The technological applications adding dynamism to the area include computer interfaces, educational software, multimedia, and in-car navigation systems. On the experimental level, themes as varied as gender differences in orientation and - of course, wholly unrelated - the role of the hippocampus in rodent navigation are described. Much detailed analysis and computational modeling of the structure of short term memory (STM) is discussed. The papers were presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland, Mind III. (Series B)
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- Part I
- Men and Women, Maps and Minds
- A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Spatial Cognition
- Describers and Explorers
- The Functional Separability of Self-Reference and Object-to-Object Systems in Spatial Memory
- In Search for an Overall Organizing Principle in Spatial Mental Models
- Describing the Topology of Spherical Regions using the 6;RCC' Formalism
- Cognitive Mapping in Rats and Humans
- Spatial Cognition Without Spatial Concepts
- Space Under Stress
- Part II
- CHAMELEON meets spatial cognition
- SONAS: Multimodal, Multi-User Interaction with a Modelled Environment
- Designing Real-Time Software Advisors for 3D Spatial Operations
- Using Spatial Semantics to Discover and Verify Diagrammatic Demonstrations of Geometric Propositions
- Formal Specifications of Image Schemata for Interoperability in Geographic Information Systems
- Using a Spatial Display to Represent the Temporal Structure of Multimedia Documents
- Part III
- A Computational Multi-layered Model for the Interpretation of Locative Expressions
- The Composition of Conceptual Structure for Spatial Motion Imperatives
- Modelling Spatial Inferences in Text Understanding
- Linguistic and Graphical Representations and the Characterisation of Individual Differences
- Part IV
- Given-New Versus New-Given?
- A Connectionist Model of the Processes Involved in Generating and Exploring Visual Mental Images
- Working Memory and Mental Synthesis
- Subject Index
Spatial Cognition brings together psychology, computer science, linguistics and geography, discussing how people think about space (our internal cognitive maps and spatial perception) and how we communicate about space, for instance giving route directions or using spatial metaphors. The technological applications adding dynamism to the area include computer interfaces, educational software, multimedia, and in-car navigation systems. On the experimental level, themes as varied as gender differences in orientation and - of course, wholly unrelated - the role of the hippocampus in rodent navigation are described. Much detailed analysis and computational modeling of the structure of short term memory (STM) is discussed. The papers were presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland, Mind III. (Series B)
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- Part I
- Men and Women, Maps and Minds
- A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Spatial Cognition
- Describers and Explorers
- The Functional Separability of Self-Reference and Object-to-Object Systems in Spatial Memory
- In Search for an Overall Organizing Principle in Spatial Mental Models
- Describing the Topology of Spherical Regions using the 6;RCC' Formalism
- Cognitive Mapping in Rats and Humans
- Spatial Cognition Without Spatial Concepts
- Space Under Stress
- Part II
- CHAMELEON meets spatial cognition
- SONAS: Multimodal, Multi-User Interaction with a Modelled Environment
- Designing Real-Time Software Advisors for 3D Spatial Operations
- Using Spatial Semantics to Discover and Verify Diagrammatic Demonstrations of Geometric Propositions
- Formal Specifications of Image Schemata for Interoperability in Geographic Information Systems
- Using a Spatial Display to Represent the Temporal Structure of Multimedia Documents
- Part III
- A Computational Multi-layered Model for the Interpretation of Locative Expressions
- The Composition of Conceptual Structure for Spatial Motion Imperatives
- Modelling Spatial Inferences in Text Understanding
- Linguistic and Graphical Representations and the Characterisation of Individual Differences
- Part IV
- Given-New Versus New-Given?
- A Connectionist Model of the Processes Involved in Generating and Exploring Visual Mental Images
- Working Memory and Mental Synthesis
- Subject Index