Spatial cognition : an interdisciplinary approach to representing and processing spatial knowledge / Christian Freksa, Christopher Habel, Karl F. Wender, eds.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Allocentric and egocentric spatial representations : definitions, distinctions, and interconnections / Roberta L. Klatzky -- The route direction effect and its constraints / Karin Schweizer [and others] -- Spatial information and actions / Silvia Mecklenbräuker [and others] -- The impact of exogenous factors on spatial coding in perception and memory / Jörg Gehrke and Bernhard Hommel -- Judging spatial relations from memory / Rainer Rothkegel, Karl F. Wender, and Sabine Schumacher -- Relations between the mental representation of extrapersonal space and spatial behavior / Steffen Werner, Christina Saade, and Gerd Lüer -- Representational levels for the perception of the courses of motion / Andreas Eisenkolb [and others] -- How space structures language / Barbara Tversky and Paul U. Lee -- Shape nouns and shape concepts : a geometry for 'corner' / Carola Eschenbach [and others] -- Typicality effects in the categorization of spatial relations / Constanze Vorwerg and Gert Rickheit -- The use of locative expressions in dependence of the spatial relation between target and reference object in two-dimensional layouts / Hubert D. Zimmer [and others] -- Reference frames for spatial inference in text understanding / Berry Claus [and others] -- Mental models in spatial reasoning / Markus Knauff [and others] -- Formal models for cognition : taxonomy of spatial location description and frames of reference / Andrew U. Frank -- Spatial representation with aspect maps / Bettina Berendt [and others] -- A hierarchy of qualitative representations for space / Benjamin Kuipers -- Spatial reasoning with topological information / Jochen Renz and Bernhard Nebel -- A taxonomy of spatial knowledge for navigation and its application to the Bremen autonomous wheelchair / Bernd Krieg-Brückner [and others] -- Human place learning in a computer generated arena / Lynn Nadel [and others] -- Spatial orientation and spatial memory within a 'locomotor maze' for humans / Bernd Leplow [and others] -- Behavioral experiment in spatial cognition using virtual reality / Hanspeter A. Mallot [and others] -- Spatial orientation in virtual environments : background considerations and experiments / Fredrik Wartenberg, Mark May, and Patrick Péruch.

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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.

English.