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Spatial Cognition VII

International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2010, Mt. Hood/Portland, OR, USA, August 15-19,02010, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Christoph Hölscher

    1. Center for Cognitive Science, Institute of Computer Science and Social Research, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  2. Thomas F. Shipley

    1. Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

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  3. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli

    1. Department of Psychology, ’Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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  4. John A. Bateman

    1. FB 10, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  5. Nora S. Newcombe

    1. Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

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This is the seventh volume of a series of books on fundamental research in spatial cognition. As with past volumes, the research presented here spans a broad range of research traditions, for spatial cognition concerns not just the basic spatial behavior of biological and artificial agents, but also the reasoning processes that allow spatial planning across broad spatial and temporal scales. Spatial information is critical for coordinated action and thus agents interacting with objects and moving among objects must be able to perceive spatial relations, learn about these relations, and act on them, or store the information for later use, either by themselves or communicated to others. Research on this problem has included both psychology, which works to understand how humans and other mobile organisms solve these problems, and computer science, which considers the nature of the information available in the world and a formal consideration of how these problems might be solved. Research on human spatial cognition also involves the application of representations and processes that may have evolved to handle object and location information to reasoning about higher-order problems, such as displaying non-spatial information in diagrams. Thus, work in s- tial cognition extends beyond psychology and computer science into many disciplines including geography and education. The Spatial Cognition conference offers one of the few forums for consideration of the issues spanning this broad academic range.

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Table of contents (28 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  3. Distance and Time

    1. Investigating the Role of Goals and Environmental Structure on Memory for Distance and Time in Virtual Environments

      • Angie Johnson, Kenny R. Coventry, Emine M. Thompson
      Pages 7-18

    2. The Spatial and Temporal Underpinnings of Social Distance

      • Justin L. Matthews, Teenie Matlock
      Pages 19-31

  4. Navigation

    1. The Role of Slope in Human Reorientation

      • Daniele Nardi, Nora S. Newcombe, Thomas F. Shipley
      Pages 32-40

    2. Influence of Geometry and Objects on Local Route Choices during Wayfinding

      • Julia Frankenstein, Simon J. Büchner, Thora Tenbrink, Christoph Hölscher
      Pages 41-53

    3. Testing Landmark Identification Theories in Virtual Environments

      • Denise Peters, Yunhui Wu, Stephan Winter
      Pages 54-69

    4. Men to the East and Women to the Right: Wayfinding with Verbal Route Instructions

      • Vanessa Joy A. Anacta, Angela Schwering
      Pages 70-84

  5. Science Education and Spatial Skill

    1. Do All Science Disciplines Rely on Spatial Abilities? Preliminary Evidence from Self-report Questionnaires

      • Mary Hegarty, Raymond D. Crookes, Drew Dara-Abrams, Thomas F. Shipley
      Pages 85-94

    2. Gestures in Geology: The Roles of Spatial Skills, Expertise, and Communicative Context

      • Lynn S. Liben, Adam E. Christensen, Kim A. Kastens
      Pages 95-111

    3. Using Analogical Mapping to Assess the Affordances of Scale Models Used in Earth and Environmental Science Education

      • Kim A. Kastens, Ann Rivet
      Pages 112-124

  6. Language

    1. Aligning Spatial Perspective in Route Descriptions

      • Elena Andonova
      Pages 125-138

    2. The Role of Grammatical Aspect in the Dynamics of Spatial Descriptions

      • Sarah Anderson, Teenie Matlock, Michael Spivey
      Pages 139-151

    3. Implicit Spatial Length Modulates Time Estimates, But Not Vice Versa

      • Roberto Bottini, Daniel Casasanto
      Pages 152-162

  7. Computational Modelling

    1. Bio-inspired Architecture for Active Sensorimotor Localization

      • Thomas Reineking, Johannes Wolter, Konrad Gadzicki, Christoph Zetzsche
      Pages 163-178

    2. Color Binding in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory

      • Luca Simione, Antonino Raffone, Gisella Micciantuono, Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, Cees van Leeuwen
      Pages 179-190

  8. Reference Frames

    1. Human EEG Correlates of Spatial Navigation within Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames

      • Markus Plank, Hermann J. Müller, Julie Onton, Scott Makeig, Klaus Gramann
      Pages 191-206

    2. Putting Egocentric and Allocentric into Perspective

      • Tobias Meilinger, Gottfried Vosgerau
      Pages 207-221
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Cognitive Science, Institute of Computer Science and Social Research, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Christoph Hölscher

  • Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

    Thomas F. Shipley, Nora S. Newcombe

  • Department of Psychology, ’Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Marta Olivetti Belardinelli

  • FB 10, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    John A. Bateman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spatial Cognition VII

  • Book Subtitle: International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2010, Mt. Hood/Portland, OR, USA, August 15-19,02010, Proceedings

  • Editors: Christoph Hölscher, Thomas F. Shipley, Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, John A. Bateman, Nora S. Newcombe

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-14748-7Published: 30 July 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-14749-4Published: 09 August 2010

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 347

  • Number of Illustrations: 108 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Simulation and Modeling

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