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Spatial Cognition

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Representing and Processing Spatial Knowledge

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Christian Freksa

    1. Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Christopher Habel

    1. Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  3. Karl F. Wender

    1. Fachbereich Psychologie, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1404)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Spatial Knowledge Acquisition and Spatial Memory

    1. Allocentric and Egocentric Spatial Representations: Definitions, Distinctions, and Interconnections

      • Roberta L. Klatzky
      Pages 1-17

    2. The Route Direction Effect and its Constraints

      • Karin Schweizer, Theo Herrmann, Gabriele Janzen, Steffi Katz
      Pages 19-38

    3. Spatial Information and Actions

      • Silvia Mecklenbräuker, Werner Wippich, Monika Wagener, Jörg E. Saathoff
      Pages 39-61

    4. The Impact of Exogenous Factors on Spatial Coding in Perception and Memory

      • Jörg Gehrke, Bernhard Hommel
      Pages 63-77

    5. Judging Spatial Relations from Memory

      • Rainer Rothkegel, Karl F. Wender, Sabine Schumacher
      Pages 79-105

    6. Relations between the mental representation of extrapersonal space and spatial behavior

      • Steffen Werner, Christina Saade, Gerd Lüer
      Pages 107-127

    7. Representational Levels for the Perception of the Courses of Motion

      • A. Eisenkolb, A. Musto, K. Schill, D. Hernández, W. Brauer
      Pages 129-155

  3. Formal and Linguistic Models

    1. How Space Structures Language

      • Barbara Tversky, Paul U. Lee
      Pages 157-175

    2. Shape Nouns and Shape Concepts: A Geometry for ‘Corner’

      • Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel, Lars Kulik, Annette Leßmöllmann
      Pages 176-202

    3. Typicality Effects in the Categorization of Spatial Relations

      • Constanze Vorwerg, Gert Rickheit
      Pages 203-222

    4. The Use of Locative Expressions in Dependence of the Spatial Relation between Target and Reference Object in Two-Dimensional Layouts

      • Hubert D. Zimmer, Harry R. Speiser, Jörg Baus, Anselm Blocher, Eva Stopp
      Pages 223-240

    5. Reference Frames for Spatial Inference in Text Understanding

      • Berry Claus, Klaus Eyferth, Carsten Gips, Robin Hörnig, Ute Schmid, Sylvia Wiebrock et al.
      Pages 241-266

    6. Mental Models in Spatial Reasoning

      • Markus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, Christoph Schlieder, Gerhard Strube
      Pages 267-291

    7. Formal Models for Cognition — Taxonomy of Spatial Location Description and Frames of Reference

      • Andrew U. Frank
      Pages 293-312

    8. Spatial Representation with Aspect Maps

      • Bettina Berendt, Thomas Barkowsky, Christian Freksa, Stephanie Kelter
      Pages 313-336

    9. A Hierarchy of Qualitative Representations for Space

      • Benjamin Kuipers
      Pages 337-350

    10. Spatial Reasoning with Topological Information

      • Jochen Renz, Bernhard Nebel
      Pages 351-371

  4. Navigation in Real and Virtual Worlds

    1. A Taxonomy of Spatial Knowledge for Navigation and its Application to the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair

      • Bernd Krieg-Brückner, Thomas Röfer, Hans-Otto Carmesin, Rolf Müller
      Pages 373-397

    2. Human Place Learning in a Computer Generated Arena

      • L. Nadel, K. G. F. Thomas, H. E. Laurance, R. Skelton, T. Tal, W. J. Jacobs
      Pages 399-427
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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 human and animal orientation and navigation; studies of communicating spatial knowledge using language and graphical or other pictorial means; the development of formal models for r- resenting and processing spatial knowledge; and computer implementations to solve spatial problems, to simulate human or animal orientation and navigation behavior, or to reproduce spatial communication patterns. These approaches can interact in interesting and useful ways: Results from empirical studies call for formal explanations both of the underlying memory structures and of the processes operating upon them; we can develop and - plement operational computer models obeying the relationships between objects and events described by the formal models; we can empirically test the computer models under a variety of conditions, and we can compare the results to the - sults from the human or animal experiments. A disagreement between these results can provide useful indications towards the re nement of the models.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Christian Freksa, Christopher Habel

  • Fachbereich Psychologie, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany

    Karl F. Wender

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