Hanspeter A. Mallot

From Geometry to Behavior (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction to Spatial Cognition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An overview of the mechanisms and evolution of spatial cognition, integrating evidence from psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and computational geometry. Understanding how we deal with space requires input from many fields, including ethology, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, geography, and spatial information theory. In From Geometry to Behavior, cognitive neuroscientist Hanspeter A. Mallot provides an overview of the basic mechanisms of spatial behavior in animals and humans, showing how they combine to support higher-level performance. Mallot explores the biological mechanisms of dealing with space, from the perception of visual space to the constructions of large space representations: that is, the cognitive map. The volume is also relevant to the epistemology of spatial knowledge in the philosophy of mind. Mallot aims to establish spatial cognition as a scientific field in its own right. His general approach is psychophysical, in that it focuses on quantitative descriptions of behavioral performance and their real-world determinants, thus connecting to the work of theorists in computational neuroscience, robotics, and computational geometry. After an overview of scientific thinking about space, Mallot covers spatial behavior and its underlying mechanisms in the order of increasing memory involvement. He describes the cognitive processes that underlie advanced spatial behaviors such as directed search, wayfinding, spatial planning, spatial reasoning, object building and manipulation, and communication about space. These mechanisms are part of the larger cognitive apparatus that also serves visual and object cognition; understanding events, actions, and causality; and social cognition, which includes language. Of all of these cognitive domains, spatial cognition most likely occurred first in the course of evolution and is the most widespread throughout the animal kingdom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262377317
• Artikelnr.: 67830221

Autorenporträt

Hanspeter A. Mallot is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of Computational Vision: Information Processing in Perception and Visual Behavior (MIT Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Space and Mind 1
1.2 Behavior 4
1.3 Space and Mathematics 11
1.4 Neurophysiology 18
1.5 Topics in Spatial Cognition 21
2 Egomotion 31
2.1 The Space for Motion 31
2.2 Perceiving Egomotion 34
2.3 Optic Flow 38
2.4 Neural Mechanisms 45
2.5 Performance 47
2.6 Cue Integration 52
3 Peripersonal Space 63
3.1 A Behavioral View 63
3.2 Visual Space Cues 64
3.3 The Intrinsic Geometry of Peripersonal Space 70
3.4 Mental Transformations: Predictive Coding of Space 75
3.5 Recalibration in Peripersonal Space 83
4 In the Loop 89
4.1 Directed Movement 89
4.2 Left–Right Balancing 92
4.3 Cognitive Components 100
4.4 Augmented Action–Perception Cycles 110
5 Path Integration 119
5.1 Dead Reckoning 119
5.2 The Home Vector 120
5.3 Path Integration in Humans 131
5.4 The Computational Neuroscience of Path Integration 138
6 Places and Landmarks 157
6.1 Here and There 157
6.2 Snapshot Homing 162
6.3 Including Depth Information 175
6.4 Identified Landmark Objects 184
6.5 Neurophysiology of Place Recognition 190
7 Spatial Memory 205
7.1 What Is Working Memory? 205
7.2 Working Memory Tasks 210
7.3 Models and Mechanisms for Spatial Working Memory 225
7.4 Routes 232
7.5 From Routes to Maps 241
8 Maps and Graphs 257
8.1 Spatial Problem Solving 257
8.2 Graphs: Basic Concepts 259
8.3 Metric Maps 264
8.4 Regions and Spatial Hierarchies 281
9 Epilogue: Reason Evolves 301
Index 311