TY - BOOK ID - 2677866 TI - Spatial cognition : an interdisciplinary approach to representing and processing spatial knowledge AU - Freksa, Christian AU - Habel, Christopher AU - Wender, Karl F. PY - 1998 VL - 1404 SN - 3540646035 9783540646037 3540693424 PB - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York Springer Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Espace--Perception KW - Kennisrepresentatie (Informatietheorie) KW - Knowledge representation (Information theory) KW - Perception spatiale KW - Représentation des connaissances (Théorie de l'information) KW - Ruimteperceptie KW - Ruimtewaarneming KW - Space perception KW - Spatial perception KW - Computer Science KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Space perception. KW - Representation of knowledge (Information theory) KW - Computer science. KW - Earth sciences. KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Geographical information systems. KW - Computer Science. KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). KW - Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. KW - Earth Sciences, general. KW - Perception KW - Spatial behavior KW - Figure-ground perception KW - Geographical perception KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Information theory KW - Geography. KW - Artificial Intelligence. KW - Cosmography KW - Earth sciences KW - World history KW - Geographical information systems KW - GIS (Information systems) KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intellectronics KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Bionics KW - Cognitive science KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Electronic data processing KW - Logic machines KW - Machine theory KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Geography KW - Geosciences KW - Environmental sciences KW - Physical sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2677866 AB - 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. ER -