Freksa C., Habel C., Wender K. (Eds.) Spatial Cognition. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Representing and Processing Spatial Knowledge

Berlin: Springer, 1998 — 489 p. — ISBN10: 3540646035; ISBN13: 978-3540646037.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.Spatial Knowledge Acquisition and Spatial MemoryRoberta L Klatzky. AUocentric and egocentric spatial representations: Definitions, distinctions, and interconnections
Karin Schweizer, Theo Herrmann, Gabriele Janzen, and Steffi Katz. The route direction effect and its constraints
Sih'ia Mecklenbräuker, Werner Wippich, Monika Wagener, and Jörg E. Saathoff. Spatial information and actions
Jörg Gehrke and Bernhard Hommel. The impact of exogenous factors on spatial coding in perception and memory
Rainer Rothkegel, Karl F. Wender, and Sabine Schumacher. Judging spatial relations from memory
Steffen Werner, Christina Saade, and Gerd Liier. Relations between the mental representation of extrapersonal space and spatial behavior
Andreas Eisenkolb, Alexandra Musto, Kerstin Schill, Daniel Hernández, and Wilfried Brauer. Representational levels for the perception of the courses of motionFormal and Linguistic ModelsBarbara Tversky and Paul U. Lee. How space structures language
Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel, Lars Kulik, and Annette Leßmöllmann. Shape nouns and shape concepts: A geometry for 'corner'
Constanze Vorwerg and Gert Rickheit. Typicality effects in the categorization of spatial relations
Hubert D. Zimmer, Harry* R. Speiser, Jörg Baus, Anselm Blocher, and Eva Stopp. The use of locative expressions in dependence of the spatial relation between target and reference object in two-dimensional layouts
Berry Claus, Klaus Eyferth, Carsten Gips, Robin Hörnig, Ute Schmid, Sylvia Wiebrock, and Fritz Wysotzki. Reference frames for spatial inference in text understanding
Markus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, Christoph Sehlieder, and Gerhard Strube. Mental models in spatial reasoning
Andrew U. Frank. Formal models for cognition - taxonomy of spatial location description and frames of reference
Bettina Berendt, Tfwmas Barkowsky, Christian Freksa, and Stephanie Kelter. Spatial representation with aspect maps
Benjamin Kuipers. A hierarchy of qualitative representations for space
Jochen Renz and Bernhard Nebel. Spatial reasoning with topological informationNavigation in Real and Virtual WorldsBernd Krieg-Brückner, Thomas Röfer, Hans-Otto Carmesin, and Rolf Müller. A taxonomy of spatial knowledge for navigation and its application to
the Bremen autonomous wheelchair
Lynn Nadel, K.G.F. Thomas, Holly E. Laurance, R. Skelton, T. Tal, and W. Jake Jacobs. Human place learning in a computer generated arena
Bernd Leplow, Doris Holt, Lingju Zeng, and Maximilian Mehdorn. Spatial orientation and spatial memory within a 'locomotor maze' for
humans
Hanspeter A. Mallot, Sabine Gillner, Hendrik A.H.C. van Veen, and Heinrich H. Biilthoff. Behavioral experiments in spatial cognition using virtual reality
Fredrik Wartenberg, Mark May, and Patrick Peruch. Spatial orientation in virtual environments: Background considerations and experimentsAuthor Index