Representing space in cognition : interrelations of behaviour, language, and formal models / edited by Thora Tenbrink, Jan M. Wiener, Christophe Claramunt.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book considers how people talk about their environment find their way in new surroundings, and plan routes. Leading scholars and researchers in psychology, linguistics, computer science, and geography show how empirical research can be used to inform formal approaches towards the development of intuitive assistance systems.

Cover; Representing Space in Cognition: Interrelations of Behaviour, Language, and Formal Models; Copyright; Contents; Preface; The contributors; List of abbreviations; 1: Representing space in cognitive science: from empirical insights via computational models to human-centred assistance; 1.1 Overview of this book; 1.2 Empirical insights; 1.3 Computational models; 1.4 Human-centred assistance; Part 1: Empirical insights; 2: Describing the way out of a cornfield: understanding cognitive underpinnings of comprehending survey and route descriptions; 2.1 Introduction

2.2 Ways to describe environments2.3 Developing and using spatial mental models from descriptions; 2.4 Working memory demands with spatial descriptions; 2.5 Configural information; 2.6 Mentally simulating extended spatial discourse; 2.7 Temporal information; 2.8 Conclusions; 3: Spatial representations for described and perceived locations; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Models of spatial memory derived from vision; 3.3 Spatial memories for linguistically acquired environments; 3.3.1 Key distinctions from vision; 3.3.2 Challenges to the formation and updating of linguistic spatial information

3.3.3 Online and offline processing of described spaces3.3.4 Reference frames in the communication and encoding of space; 3.4. Implications for models of functional equivalence; 3.4.1 Overview; 3.4.2 Separate-but-equal modalities; 3.4.3 Recoding and modality-specific simulations; 3.4.4 Amodal convergence of modalities; 3.5 Conclusion; 4: The processing of landmarks in route directions; 4.1 Spatial discourse as a way of assisting navigation; 4.2 Models of direction-giving discourse; 4.3 The functional significance of landmarks in route directions

4.4 Visuospatial imagery and the processing of route directions4.5 Landmarks in route directions: when psychology meets computer science and robotics; Part 2: Computational models; 5: Selection of reference objects for locative expressions: the importance of knowledge and perception; 5.1 The importance of locative expressions; 5.2 Formation of locative expressions; 5.3 Interpreting a locative expression; 5.4 Related work on reference object selection; 5.5 A near real-world data set for locative expression generation; 5.6 Descriptive variables for reference objects

5.6.1 Classification variable5.6.2 Variables related to the distance between objects; 5.6.3 Variables related to object size; 5.6.4 Variables derived from ray casting; 5.7 Simple models of reference object suitability; 5.8 Knowledge and perception in reference object choice; 5.8.1 Influencing factors and variable representations; 5.8.2 Possible shortcomings of the platform and models; 5.8.3 Human performance in the reference choice task; 5.8.4 Extension to compound locative expressions; 5.9 Next steps; 6: Spatial prototypes; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Representing immediate space-SCENEs

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