Spatial Cognition V Reasoning, Action, Interaction: International Conference Spatial Cognition 2006, Bremen, Germany, September 24-28, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

Alexander Scivos (auth.), Thomas Barkowsky, Markus Knauff, Gérard Ligozat, Daniel R. Montello (eds.)3540756655, 9783540756651

This is the fifth volume in a series of book publications featuring basic interdisciplinary research in spatial cognition. The study of spatial cognition is the study of knowledge about spatial properties of objects and events in the world. Spatial properties include location, size, distance, direction, separation and connection, shape, pattern, and so on. Cognition is about the structures and processes of knowledge: its acquisition, storage, retrieval, manipulation, and use by humans, nonhuman animals, and machines. Broadly construed, cognitive activities include sensation and perception, thinking, attention, imagery, attitudes, memory, learning, language, and reasoning and problem-solving; the interaction of these activities with motoric (body movement) and affective (emotional) processing is recognized as critically important, as well. Cognition is typically considered to make up much of the activity of the mind. But though the mind is an expression of the structures and processes of the brain and nervous system, it is also an expression of an organism or agent with a physical body that typically exists in a physical and socio-cultural world. Researchers study spatial cognition for several reasons. Spatial cognition plays important roles in most of the domains of knowledge and behavior of sentient beings, including activities associated with biological survival, social interaction, cultural practice, and economic exchange. Attempts to describe, predict, and explain the basic components of spatial cognition and their interrelationships stimulate a host of interesting basic questions about how important parts of reality work.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Reachability and Dependency Calculi: Reasoning in Network Algebras….Pages 1-19
The Qualitative Trajectory Calculus on Networks….Pages 20-38
Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning in the SparQ-Toolbox….Pages 39-58
Remembering Places in Space: A Human Analog Study of the Morris Water Maze….Pages 59-75
The Role of Users’ Concepts of the Robot in Human-Robot Spatial Instruction….Pages 76-89
Collaborative Assistance with Spatio-temporal Planning Problems….Pages 90-106
Dialog-Based 3D-Image Recognition Using a Domain Ontology….Pages 107-126
Protein Structure Prediction with Visuospatial Analogy….Pages 127-139
The Spatial Representation of Dynamic Scenes – An Integrative Approach….Pages 140-155
Modeling Geospatial Events and Impacts Through Qualitative Change….Pages 156-174
Preferred Mental Models: How and Why They Are So Important in Human Reasoning with Spatial Relations….Pages 175-190
The Spatial and the Visual in Mental Spatial Reasoning: An Ill-Posed Distinction….Pages 191-209
Grounded Perceptual Schemas: Developmental Acquisition of Spatial Concepts….Pages 210-228
Modeling Human Spatial Memory Within a Symbolic Architecture of Cognition….Pages 229-248
Updating in Models of Spatial Memory….Pages 249-269
Sensorimotor Interference When Reasoning About Described Environments….Pages 270-287
Mechanisms for Human Spatial Competence….Pages 288-307
Algorithms for Reliable Navigation and Wayfinding….Pages 308-326
Interpreting Route Instructions as Qualitative Spatial Actions….Pages 327-345
Knowledge Based Schematization of Route Directions….Pages 346-364
Map Use and Wayfinding Strategies in a Multi-building Ensemble….Pages 365-380
How Much Information Do You Need? Schematic Maps in Wayfinding and Self Localisation….Pages 381-400
Wayfinding Strategies in Behavior and Language: A Symmetric and Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Processes….Pages 401-420
A Spatial Cognitive Map and a Human-Like Memory Model Dedicated to Pedestrian Navigation in Virtual Urban Environments….Pages 421-438
The Influence of Scale, Context and Spatial Preposition in Linguistic Topology….Pages 439-452
Before or After: Prepositions in Spatially Constrained Systems….Pages 453-469
Discourse Factors Influencing Spatial Descriptions in English and German….Pages 470-488
Autobahn People: Distance Estimations Between German Cities Biased by Social Factors and the Autobahn….Pages 489-500
Back Matter….Pages –