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The study of medieval and early modern geographic space, literary cartography, and spatial thinking at a time of rapid digitization in the Humanities offers new ways to investigate spatial knowledge and world perceptions in pre-modern societies. Digitization of cultural heritage collections, open source databases, and interactive resources utilizing a rich variety of source materials-place names, early modern cadastral maps, medieval literature and art, Viking Age and medieval runic inscriptions-provides opportunities to re-think traditional lines of research on spatiality and worldviews, encourage innovation in methodology, and engage critically with digital outcomes. In this book, Nordic scholars of philology, onomastics, history, geography, literary studies, and digital humanities examine multiple aspects of ten large- and small-scale digital spatial infrastructures from the early stages of development to the practical applications of digital tools for studying spatial thinking and knowledge in pre-modern sources and societies.

Space perception. --- Spatial data infrastructures.

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There is growing interest in understanding how the perception of pain (and touch) is influenced by the way we represent our body and the space surrounding it. Recent views argue that pain can only be understood in a larger framework of body perception and action. This attention is driven by accumulating research in experimental and clinical domains, indicating that pain perception depends largely on cognitive factors and multisensory integration. The interest is also boosted by studies on chronic pain conditions suggesting a tight link between body perception and the maintenance of pain. Many aspects remain yet to be elucidated. We welcome submissions from researchers in cognitive neuroscience and pain to increase our understanding of the interplay among body, space, pain, touch and movement. We aim to gather insights from different theoretical frameworks and encourage investigators using a broad range of methods including (but not limited to) behavioural and neuropsychological approaches, imaging techniques, electrophysiology, psychophysiology and TMS to present their results in this Research Topic. In the attempt to go from bench- to bedside we also strongly encourage submissions from clinicians and physiotherapist whose contribution may help rising some future key questions. Qualitative and phenomenological approaches are also welcome.

Psychology --- Social Sciences --- Body perception --- Illusions --- Pain --- Space Perception --- multisensory integration --- sensory-motor integration

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Spatial-hearing ability has been found to vary widely across listeners. A survey of the existing auditory-space perception literature suggests that three main types of factors may account for this variability: - physical factors, e.g., acoustical characteristics related to sound-localization cues, - perceptual factors, e.g., sensory/cognitive processing, perceptual learning, multisensory interactions, - and methodological factors, e.g., differences in stimulus presentation methods across studies. However, the extent to which these–and perhaps other, still unidentified—factors actually contribute to the observed variability in spatial hearing across individuals with normal hearing or within special populations (e.g., hearing-impaired listeners) remains largely unknown. Likewise, the role of perceptual learning and multisensory interactions in the emergence of a multimodal but unified representation of “auditory space,” is still an active topic of research. A better characterization and understanding of the determinants of inter-individual variability in spatial hearing, and of its relationship with perceptual learning and multisensory interactions, would have numerous benefits. In particular, it would enhance the design of rehabilitative devices and of human-machine interfaces involving auditory, or multimodal space perception, such as virtual auditory/multimodal displays in aeronautics, or navigational aids for the visually impaired. For this Research Topic, we have considered manuscripts that: - present new methods, or review existing methods, for the study of inter-individual differences; - present new data (or review existing) data, concerning acoustical features relevant for explaining inter-individual differences in sound-localization performance; - present new (or review existing) psychophysical or neurophysiological findings concerning spatial hearing and/or auditory perceptual learning, and/or multisensory interactions in humans (normal or impaired, young or older listeners) or other species; - discuss the influence of inter-individual differences on the design and use of assistive listening devices (rehabilitation) or human-machine interfaces involving spatial hearing or multimodal perception of space (ergonomy).

Directional hearing. --- Space perception. --- Learning --- HRTF (head related transfer function) --- Sound Localization --- spatial hearing --- adaptation --- training --- binaural cues --- spectral cues --- mulltisensory interaction

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En apprendre autant sur la notion d’espace que sur les Amériques, tel est l’objectif de cet ouvrage. Il aborde les manières qui furent et sont encore celles des individus et des groupes d’habiter cette portion du globe, une parmi d’autres, mais unique ne serait-ce que par la puissance que sa simple évocation exerce sur notre imaginaire. Les auteurs nous présentent, indissolublement liés, d’un côté, l’espace, concret, relationnel, actant et construit, de l’autre les Amériques, creuset(s) et terreau(x) infini(s) comme contradictoire(s) de tous les possibles. La mise en tension de ces deux entrées, dont les éléments forment système, renvoie aux thèmes de l’imaginaire et de sa force, du mythe et de ses frontières, de la dialectique du dehors et du dedans, du couple ailleurs/nulle part et enfin de l’ancrage, thèmes qui organisent les contributions d’une quinzaine d’auteurs, relevant d’un vaste éventail de disciplines. Cette diversité permet de jongler non seulement avec les approches mais aussi avec les différentes échelles, du continent au jardin, pour suggérer comment habiter l’espace, aux Amériques comme ailleurs, revient à « faire avec » cet espace et ce qui le compose, matériellement, socialement, mais aussi sur le plan des imaginaires et des mythes, renvoyant à l’actuel comme aux passés réels ou fantasmés, aux avenirs possibles aussi. La conquête semble être ce qui caractérise le plus ces « faire avec » illustrant une espérance qui se concrétise physiquement, matériellement, immatériellement et symboliquement. L’espace, dans les Amériques, convoque et véhicule des pratiques et des imaginaires (tous deux liés) qu’il sédimente ou oublie : il se renouvelle par lui-même et sur lui-même, alternant ruptures et ancrages.

Human territoriality --- Space perception --- Territorialité humaine --- Perception spatiale --- America --- Amérique --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary --- Amérique --- conquête --- espace --- histoire des représentations --- imaginaire collectif --- mythe moderne --- territorialité humaine --- territoire

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"Steeped in story-telling and endlessly curious, Reading the country: an introduction to nomadology (1984) was the product of Paddy Roe, Stephen Muecke and Krim Benterrak, experimenting with what it might be like to think together about country. In the process a senior traditional owner, a cultural theorist and a painter produced a text unlike any other. Reading the Country: 30 Years On is a celebration of one of the great twentieth-century books of intercultural dialogue. Recalling a spirit of intellectual risk and respect, in this collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, poets, writers and publishers both acknowledge the past and look, with hope, to future transformations of culture and country."--Publisher's website.

Aboriginal Australians --- Nomads --- Geographical perception. --- Benterrak, Krim, --- Roebuck Plains (W.A.) --- Environmental perception --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception --- Nomadic peoples --- Nomadism --- Pastoral peoples --- Vagabonds --- Wanderers --- Persons --- Herders --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Indigenous Australian culture --- Indigenous Australian studies --- Culture and intertextuality --- Country and nomadology --- Settlement and resistance --- First Nations history