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Relevance in Spatial Navigation and Communication

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Abstract

Humans are incapable of reproducing exact “copies” of reality when conceptualizing and communicating about space. Instead, those aspects of a spatial environment are represented that are relevant for a particular purpose. This paper addresses how cognition and communication of space are affected by relevance. It starts out with a review of a broad range of evidence from theories and empirical findings on relevance in perception and communication, before turning more specifically to the role of relevance in navigation and description strategies.

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  • Spatial concepts
  • top-down processes
  • route descriptions
  • relevance theory
  • perception

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Tenbrink, T. (2012). Relevance in Spatial Navigation and Communication. In: Stachniss, C., Schill, K., Uttal, D. (eds) Spatial Cognition VIII. Spatial Cognition 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7463. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32732-2_23

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