Cognitive And Linguistic Aspects Of Geographic Space

Author : D.M. Mark,Andrew U. Frank
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401126069

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Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space by D.M. Mark,Andrew U. Frank Pdf

This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space," held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July 8-20, 1990. The NATO ASI marked a stage in a two-year research project at the U. S. National Center for Geographic Infonnation and Analysis (NCOIA). In 1987, the U. S. National Science Foundation issued a solicitation for proposals to establish the NCGIA-and one element of that solicitation was a call for research on a "fundamental theory of spatial relations". We felt that such a fundamental theory could be searched for in mathematics (geometry, topology) or in cognitive science, but that a simultaneous search in these two seemingly disparate research areas might produce novel results. Thus, as part of the NCGIA proposal from a consortium consisting of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Maine, we proposed that the second major Research Initiative (two year, multidisciplinary research project) of the NCOIA would address these issues, and would be called "Languages of Spatial Relations" The grant to establish the NCOIA was awarded to our consortium late in 1988.

Author : Martin Raubal,David M Mark,Andrew U. Frank
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642343599

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Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space by Martin Raubal,David M Mark,Andrew U. Frank Pdf

20 years ago, from July 8 to 20, 1990, 60 researchers gathered for two weeks at Castillo-Palacio Magalia in Las Navas del Marques (Avila Province, Spain) to discuss cognitive and linguistic aspects of geographic space. This meeting was the start of successful research on cognitive issues in geographic information science, produced an edited book (D. M. Mark and A. U. Frank, Eds., 1991, Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space. NATO ASI Series D: Behavioural and Social Sciences 63. Kluwer, Dordrecht/Boston/London), and led to a biannual conference (COSIT), a refereed journal (Spatial Cognition and Computation), and a substantial and still growing research community. It appeared worthwhile to assess the achievements and to reconsider the research challenges twenty years later. What has changed in the age of computational ontologies and cyber-infrastructures? Consider that 1990 the web was only about to emerge and the very first laptops had just appeared! The 2010 meeting brought together many of the original participants, but was also open to others, and invited contributions from all who are researching these topics. Early-career scientists, engineers, and humanists working at the intersection of cognitive science and geographic information science were invited to help with the re-assessment of research needs and approaches. The meeting was very successful and compared the research agenda laid out in the 1990 book with achievements over the past twenty years and then turned to the future: What are the challenges today? What are worthwhile goals for basic research? What can be achieved in the next 20 years? What are the lessons learned? This edited book will assess the current state of the field through chapters by participants in the 1990 and 2010 meetings and will also document an interdisciplinary research agenda for the future.

Author : David M. Mark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Geographic information systems
ISBN : OCLC:225657770

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Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space by David M. Mark Pdf

Author : Peter Auer,Martin Hilpert,Anja Stukenbrock,Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110312027

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Space in Language and Linguistics by Peter Auer,Martin Hilpert,Anja Stukenbrock,Benedikt Szmrecsanyi Pdf

This book brings together three perspectives on language and space that are quite well-researched within themselves, but which so far are lacking productive interconnections. Specifically, the book aims to interconnect the following research areas: Language, space, and geography Grammar, space, and cognition Language and interactional spaces The contributions in this book cover geographical language variation within and across languages, language use in stationary and mobile interactional spaces, computer-mediated communication, and spatial reasoning across languages. This range of issues showcases the thematic and methodological breadth of research on language and space. In order to identify interconnections, the respective contributions are accompanied by commentaries that highlight common threads.

Author : Christian Freksa,Wilfried Brauer,Christopher Habel,Karl F. Wender
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540404309

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Spatial Cognition III by Christian Freksa,Wilfried Brauer,Christopher Habel,Karl F. Wender Pdf

This third volume documents the results achieved within a priority program on spatial cognition funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). The 23 revised full papers presented went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and reflect the increased interdisciplinary cooperation in the area. The papers are organized in topical sections on routes and navigation, human memory and learning, spatial representation, and spatial reasoning.

Author : Thora Tenbrink,Jan M. Wiener,Christophe Claramunt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191669514

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Representing Space in Cognition by Thora Tenbrink,Jan M. Wiener,Christophe Claramunt Pdf

This book considers how people talk about their environment, find their way in new surroundings, and plan routes. Part I explores the empirical insights gained from research in the cognitive underpinnings of spatial representation in language. Part II proposes solutions for capturing such insights formally, and in Part III authors discuss how theory is put into practice through spatial assistance systems. These three perspectives stem from research disciplines which deal with the spatial domain in different ways, and which often remain separate. In this book they are combined so as to highlight both the state of the art in the field and the benefit of building bridges between methodologies and disciplines. Finding our way and planning routes is relevant to us all; this book ultimately helps improve our everyday lives.

Author : Juval Portugali
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780585334851

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The Construction of Cognitive Maps by Juval Portugali Pdf

and processes which are exclusive to humans in their encoding, storing, decoding and retrieving spatial knowledge for various tasks. The authors present and discuss connectionist models of cognitive maps which are based on local representation, versus models which are based on distributed representation, as well as connectionist models concerning language and spatial relations. As is well known, Gibson's (1979) ecological approach suggests a view on cognition which is diametrically different from the classical main stream view: perception (and thus cognition) is direct, immediate and needs no internal information processing, and is thus essentially an external process of interaction between an organism and its external environment. The chapter by Harry Heft introduces J. J. Gibson's ecological approach and its implication to the construction of cognitive maps in general and to the issue of wayfinding in particular. According to Heft, main stream cognitive sciences are essentially Cartesian in nature and have not as yet internalized the implications of Darwin's theory of evolution. Gibson, in his ecological approach, has tried to do exactly this. The author introduces the basic terminology of the ecological approach and relates its various notions, in particular optic flow, nested hierarchy and affordances, to navigation and the way routes and places in the environment are learned.

Author : T.L. Nyerges,D.M. Mark,Robert Laurini,Max J. Egenhofer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401101035

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Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems by T.L. Nyerges,D.M. Mark,Robert Laurini,Max J. Egenhofer Pdf

A significant part of understanding how people use geographic information and technology concerns human cognition. This book provides the first comprehensive in-depth examination of the cognitive aspects of human-computer interaction for geographic information systems (GIS). Cognitive aspects are treated in relation to individual, group, behavioral, institutional, and cultural perspectives. Extensions of GIS in the form of spatial decision support systems and SDSS for groups are part of the geographic information technology considered. Audience: Geographic information users, systems analysts and system designers, researchers in human-computer interaction will find this book an information resource for understanding cognitive aspects of geographic information technology use, and the methods appropriate for examining this use.

Author : Christian Freksa,Christopher Habel,Karl F. Wender
Publisher : Springer
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540693420

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Spatial Cognition by Christian Freksa,Christopher Habel,Karl F. Wender Pdf

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.

Author : Anthony G. Cohn,David M. Mark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540320203

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Spatial Information Theory by Anthony G. Cohn,David M. Mark Pdf

This volume contains the papers presented at the "Conference on Spatial Information Theory", held in Ellicottville, New York in September 2005. COSIT 2005 was the 7th International Conference held under the COSIT name.

Author : Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521011965

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Space in Language and Cognition by Stephen C. Levinson Pdf

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Author : Daniel R. Montello
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781784717544

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Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography by Daniel R. Montello Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook summarizes existing work and presents new concepts and empirical results from leading scholars in the multidisciplinary field of behavioral and cognitive geography, the study of the human mind, and activity in and concerning space, place, and environment. It provides the broadest and most inclusive coverage of the field so far, including work relevant to human geography, cartography, and geographic information science.

Author : Seán Ó Nualláin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1556198426

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Spatial Cognition by Seán Ó Nualláin Pdf

"Spatial Cognition" brings together psychology, computer science, linguistics and geography, discussing how people think about space (our internal cognitive maps and spatial perception) and how we communicate about space, for instance giving route directions or using spatial metaphors. The technological applications adding dynamism to the area include computer interfaces, educational software, multimedia, and in-car navigation systems. On the experimental level, themes as varied as gender differences in orientation and of course, wholly unrelated the role of the hippocampus in rodent navigation are described. Much detailed analysis and computational modeling of the structure of short term memory (STM) is discussed. The papers were presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland, Mind III. (Series B)

Author : Rob Kitchin,Marc Blades
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015054455012

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The Cognition of Geographic Space by Rob Kitchin,Marc Blades Pdf

This engaging book looks at how humans think and behave in geographic space. The authors analyze what people know about spatial geographical relationships, and how this knowledge is used in everyday life. They synthesize a variety of perspectives from various disciplines, providing a critical appraisal of geographic space. In doing so, the authors put forth new ideas and theories concerning cognitive mapping, and outline an agenda for future research.

Author : Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223913

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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures by Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt Pdf

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human communication and interaction. The authors address the nature of spatial and temporal constructs from a number of perspectives, such as cultural specificity in determining time intervals in an Amazonian culture, distinct temporalities in a specific Mongolian hunter community, Russian-specific conceptualisation of temporal relations, Seri and Yucatec frames of spatial reference, memory of events in space and time, and metaphorical meaning stemming from perception and spatial artefacts, to name but a few themes. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different albeit related point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic Diversity (HCP 36) which focuses on the language-specific vis-à-vis universal aspects of linguistic representation of spatial and temporal reference.