Spatial Cognition
Foundations and applications
Editor
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)
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 26] 2000. xvi, 366 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction: Spatial Cognition – Foundations and ApplicationsSeán Ó Nualláin | pp. ix–xvi
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Part I: Epistemological Issues | p. 1
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Men and Women, Maps and Minds: Cognitive bases of sex-related differences in reading and interpreting mapsGary L. Allen | pp. 3–18
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A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Spatial CognitionMaurizio Tirassa, Antonella Carassa and Giuliano Geminiani | pp. 19–31
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Describers and Explorers: A method for investigating cognitive mapsAntonella Carassa, Alessia Aprigliano and Giuliano Geminiani | pp. 33–43
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The Functional Separability of Self-Reference and Object-to-Object Systems in Spatial MemoryM. Jeanne Sholl | pp. 45–67
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In Search for an Overall Organizing Principle in Spatial Mental Models: A question of inferenceRobin Hörnig, Berry Claus and Klaus Eyferth | pp. 69–81
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Describing the Topology of Spherical Regions using the ‘RCC’ FormalismNicholas Mark Gotts | pp. 83–104
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Cognitive Mapping in Rats and Humans: The tent-maze, a place learning task in visually disconnected environmentsMarie-Claude Grobéty, Muriel Morand and Françoise Schenk | pp. 105–126
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Spatial Cognition Without Spatial ConceptsArnold Smith | pp. 127–136
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Space Under Stress: Spatial understanding and new media technologiesChris Speed and Deborah García-Tobin | pp. 137–145
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Part II: Software Applications: Multimedia, GIS, diagrammatic reasoning and beyond | p. 147
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CHAMELEON meets spatial cognitionPaul Mc Kevitt | pp. 149–170
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SONAS: Multimodal, Multi-User Interaction with a Modelled EnvironmentSeán Ó Nualláin, John Kelleher, Tom Doris and Quamir Hussain | pp. 171–184
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Designing Real-Time Software Advisors for 3D Spatial OperationsMike Eisenberg | pp. 185–197
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Using Spatial Semantics to Discover and Verify Diagrammatic Demonstrations of Geometric PropositionsRobert K. Lindsay | pp. 199–212
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Formal Specifications of Image Schemata for Interoperability in Geographic Information SystemsAndrew U. Frank and Martin Raubal | pp. 213–232
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Using a Spatial Display to Represent the Temporal Structure of Multimedia DocumentsMireille Bétrancourt, Anne Pellegrin and Laurent Tardif | pp. 233–245
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Part III: Language and Space | p. 247
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A Computational Multi-layered Model for the Interpretation of Locative ExpressionsLuca Anibaldi and Seán Ó Nualláin | pp. 249–265
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The Composition of Conceptual Structure for Spatial Motion ImperativesJohn Gurney and Elizabeth Klipple | pp. 267–283
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Modelling Spatial Inferences in Text UnderstandingUte Schmid, Sylvia Wiebrock and Fritz Wysotzki | pp. 285–297
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Linguistic and Graphical Representations and the Characterisation of Individual DifferencesKeith Stenning and Padraic Monaghan | pp. 299–313
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Part IV: Memory, Consciousness and Space | p. 315
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Given-New Versus New-Given? An analysis of reading times for spatial descriptionsThom S. Baguley and Stephen J. Payne | pp. 317–328
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A Connectionist Model of the Processes Involved in Generating and Exploring Visual Mental ImagesMathias Bollaert | pp. 329–346
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Working Memory and Mental Synthesis: A dual-task approachDavid G. Pearson and Robert H. Logie | pp. 347–359
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Subject Index | pp. 361–364
“[...] the book accurately accounts for current technological trends in modeling, research, and design.
[...] provides an appropriate depiction of the interdisciplinary nature of the field.
[...] succesfully conveys some of the key research issues in the field.
[...] represents a manageable consideration of important issues in spatial research.
”David N. Rapp, Department of Psychology, Tuft University, USA in American Journal of Psychology, Fall 2002
“[...] Spatial Cognition does a good job at presenting central issues in simulation and the connections between language and spatial perception. [...] there is rich material to be gleaned by the persistent nontechnical theorist as well.”
Douglas B. Meehan, CUNY Graduate Center, in Jnl of Consiousness Studies, Vol. 6 no. 1
Subjects
Consciousness Research
Linguistics
Psychology
Main BIC Subject
JMT: States of consciousness
Main BISAC Subject
PSY020000: PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 00044499