Spatial Cognition

by Freksa, Christian; Habel, Christopher; Wender, Karl Friedrich

• ISBN13: 9783540646037
• ISBN10: 3540646035
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Springer-Nature New York Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Spatial Knowledge Acquisition and Spatial Memory
Allocentric and egocentric spatial representations: Definitions, distinctions, and interconnections	1	(18)
Roberta L. Klatzky
The route direction effect and its constraints	19	(20)
Karin Schweizer
Theo Herrmann
Gobriele Janzen
Steffi Katz
Spatial information and actions	39	(24)
Silvia Mecklenbrauker
Werner Wippich
Monika Wagener
Jorg E. Saathoff
The impact of exogenous factors on spatial coding in perception and memory	63	(16)
Jorg Gehrke
Bernhard Hommel
Judging spatial relations from memory	79	(28)
Rainer Rothkegel
Karl F. Wender
Sabine Schumacher
Relations between the mental representation of extrapersonal space and spatial behavior	107	(22)
Steffen Werner
Christina Saade
Gerd Luer
Representational levels for the perception of the courses of motion	129	(28)
Andreas Eisenkolb
Alexandra Musto
Kerstin Schill
Daniel Hernandez
Wilfried Brauer
Formal and Linguistic Models
How space structures language	157	(20)
Barbara Tversky
Paul U. Lee
Shape nouns and shape concepts: A geometry for `corner'	177	(26)
Carola Eschenbach
Christopher Habel
Lars Kulik
Annette Leβmollmann
Typicality effects in the categorization of spatial relations	203	(20)
Constanze Vorwerg
Gert Rickheit
The use of locative expressions in dependence of the spatial relation between target and reference object in two-dimensional layouts	223	(18)
Hubert D. Zimmer
Harry R. Speiser
Jorg Baus
Eva Stopp
Reference frames for spatial inference in text understanding	241	(26)
Berry Claus
Klaus Eyferth
Carsten Gips
Robin Hornig
Ute Schmid
Sylvia Wiebrock
Fritz Wysotzki
Mental models in spatial reasoning	267	(26)
Markus Knauff
Reinhold Rauh
Christoph Schlieder
Gerhard Strube
Formal models for cognition - taxonomy of spatial location description and frames of reference	293	(20)
Andrew U. Frank
Spatial representation with aspect maps	313	(24)
Bettina Berendt
Thomas Barkowsky
Christian Freksa
Stephanie Kelter
A hierarchy of qualitative representations for space	337	(14)
Benjamin Kuipers
Spatial reasoning with topological information	351	(22)
Jochen Renz
Bernhard Nebel
Navigation in Real and Virtual Worlds
A taxonomy of spatial knowledge for navigation and its application to the Bremen autonomous wheelchair	373	(26)
Bernd Krieg-Bruckner
Thomas Rofer
Hans- Otto Carmesin
Rolf Muller
Human place learning in a computer generated arena	399	(30)
Lynn Nadel
K. G. F. Thomas
Holly E. Laurance
R. Skelton
T. Tal
W. Jake Jacobs
Spatial orientation and spatial memory within a `locomotor maze' for humans	429	(18)
Bernd Leplow
Doris Holl
Lingju Zeng
Maximilian Mehdorn
Behavioral experiments in spatial cognition using virtual reality	447	(22)
Hanspeter A. Mallot
Sabine Gillner
Hendrik A. H. C. van Veen
Heinrich H. Bulthoff
Spatial orientation in virtual environments: Background considerations and experiments	469	(22)
Fredrik Wartenberg
Mark May
Patrick Peruch
Author Index	491