Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space: An Introduction

   1. Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space: An Introduction

      • David M. Mark, Andrew U. Frank

      Pages 1-6

3. Geographic Space

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-8

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   2. Geographic Space as a Set of Concrete Geographical Entities

      • Joan Nunes

      Pages 9-33

   3. Some Notes on Geographic Information Systems: The Relationship Between their Practical Application and their Theoretical Evolution

      • Irene Campari

      Pages 35-44

   4. A Hand-In-Glove Paradigm for Geography

      • Allen K. Philbrick

      Pages 45-49

4. Cultural Influences on the Conceptualization of Geographic Space

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. “Through the Door”: A View of Space from an Anthropological Perspective

      • Maria Catedra

      Pages 53-63

   3. Culture as Input and Output of the Cognitive-Linguistic Processes

      • E. M. Bjorklund

      Pages 65-69

   4. Dialogic and Argumentative Structures of Bumper Stickers

      • D. A. Kas

      Pages 71-75

5. Wayfinding and Spatial Cognition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-79

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   2. The Development of the Abilities Required to Understand Spatial Representations

      • Mark Blades

      Pages 81-115

   3. Making Sense of Human Wayfinding: Review of Cognitive and Linguistic Knowledge for Personal Navigation with a New Research Direction

      • Myke Gluck

      Pages 117-135

   4. Wayfinding Theory and Research: The Need for a New Approach

      • Mark Blades

      Pages 137-165

   5. The Effect of the Pattern of the Environment on Spatial Knowledge Acquisition

      • Scott M. Freundschuh

      Pages 167-183

   6. Methods for Measuring Spatial Cognition

      • Thomas A. Gentry, James A. Wakefield Jr.

      Pages 185-217

   7. Path Finding in Free Space Using Sinusoidal Transforms: III

      • Ian Pratt

      Pages 219-233

6. Cartographic Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-236

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   2. Mapping as Language or Semiotic System: Review and Comment

      • C. Grant Head

      Pages 237-262

   3. Plan Information and its Retrieval in Map Interpretation: The View from Semiotics

      • Hansgeorg Schlichtmann

      Pages 263-284

This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space," held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July 8-20, 1990. The NATO ASI marked a stage in a two-year research project at the U. S. National Center for Geographic Infonnation and Analysis (NCOIA). In 1987, the U. S. National Science Foundation issued a solicitation for proposals to establish the NCGIA-and one element of that solicitation was a call for research on a "fundamental theory of spatial relations". We felt that such a fundamental theory could be searched for in mathematics (geometry, topology) or in cognitive science, but that a simultaneous search in these two seemingly disparate research areas might produce novel results. Thus, as part of the NCGIA proposal from a consortium consisting of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Maine, we proposed that the second major Research Initiative (two year, multidisciplinary research project) of the NCOIA would address these issues, and would be called "Languages of Spatial Relations" The grant to establish the NCOIA was awarded to our consortium late in 1988.

• Action
• cognitive science
• evolution
• geographical information system
• geography

• National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

  David M. Mark

• National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Department of Surveying Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, USA

  Andrew U. Frank

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