Spatial Cognition III

This third volume documents the results achieved within a priority program on spatial cognition funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

The 23 revised full papers presented went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and reflect the increased interdisciplinary cooperation in the area. The papers are organized in topical sections on routes and navigation, human memory and learning, spatial representation, and spatial reasoning.

Inhalt

Routes and Navigation.- Navigating by Mind and by Body.- Pictorial Representations of Routes: Chunking Route Segments during Comprehension.- Self-localization in Large-Scale Environments for the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair.- The Role of Geographical Slant in Virtual Environment Navigation.- Granularity Transformations in Wayfinding.- A Geometric Agent Following Route Instructions.- Cognition Meets Le Corbusier - Cognitive Principles of Architectural Design.- Human Memory and Learning.- The Effect of Speed Changes on Route Learning in a Desktop Virtual Environment.- Is It Possible to Learn and Transfer Spatial Information from Virtual to Real Worlds?.- Acquisition of Cognitive Aspect Maps.- How Are the Locations of Objects in the Environment Represented in Memory?.- Priming in Spatial Memory: A Flow Model Approach.- Context Effects in Memory for Routes.- Spatial Representation.- Towards an Architecture for Cognitive Vision Using Qualitative Spatio-temporal Representations and Abduction.- How Similarity Shapes Diagrams.- Spatial Knowledge Representation for Human-Robot Interaction.- How Many Reference Frames?.- Motion Shapes: Empirical Studies and Neural Modeling.- Use of Reference Directions in Spatial Encoding.- Spatial Reasoning.- Reasoning about Cyclic Space: Axiomatic and Computational Aspects.- Reasoning and the Visual-Impedance Hypothesis.- Qualitative Spatial Reasoning about Relative Position.- Interpretation of Intentional Behavior in Spatial Partonomies.