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Author Mind (Conference) (3rd : 1998 : Dublin City University)

Title Spatial cognition : foundations and applications : selected papers from Mind III, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland, 1998 / edited by Seán Ó Nualláin
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 364 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in consciousness research ; v. 26
Advances in consciousness research ; v. 26.
Contents SPATIAL COGNITION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction Spatial Cognition -- Foundationsand applications -- PART I: Epistemological Issues -- Men and Women, Maps and Minds: Cognitive bases of sex-related di .erences in reading and interpreting maps -- A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Spatial Cognition -- Describers and Explorers: A method for investigating cognitive maps -- The Functional Separability of Self-Reference and Object-to-Object Systems in Spatial Memory -- In Search for an Overall Organizing Principle in Spatial Mental Models: A question of inference -- Describing the Topology of Spherical Regions using the 'RCC' Formalism -- Cognitive Mapping in Rats and Humans: The tent-maze,a place learning task in visually disconnected environments -- Spatial Cognition Without Spatial Concepts -- Space Under Stress: Spatial understanding and new media technologies -- PART II: Software Applications: Multimedia, GIS, diagrammatic reasoning and beyond -- CHAMELEON Meets Spatial Cognition -- SONAS: Multimodal, Multi-User Interaction with a Modelled Environment -- Designing Real-Time Software Advisors for 3D Spatial Operations -- Using Spatial Semantics to Discover and Verify Diagrammatic Demonstrations of Geometric Propositions -- Formal Specifications of Image Schemata for Interoperability in Geographic Information Systems -- Using a Spatial Display to Represent the Temporal Structure of Multimedia Documents -- PART III: Language and Space -- A Computational Multi-layered Model for the Interpretation of Locative Expressions -- The Composition of Conceptual Structure for Spatial Motion Imperatives -- Modelling Spatial Inferences in Text Understanding -- Linguistic and Graphical Representations and the Characterisation of Individual Differences
PART IV: Memory, Consciousness and Space -- Given-New Versus New-Given?: An analysis of reading times for spatial descriptions -- A Connectionist Model of the Processes Involved in Generating and Exploring Visual Mental Images -- Working Memory and Mental Synthesis: A dual-task approach -- Subject Index -- the series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Spatial behavior -- Congresses
Space perception -- Congresses
Personal space -- Congresses
Space perception.
Space Perception -- Congresses
Models, Psychological -- Congresses
Space Perception
Models, Psychological
space perception.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
Personal space
Space perception
Spatial behavior
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Ó Nualláin, Seán
LC no. 00044499
ISBN 0585461856
9780585461854
9781556198427
1556198426
128225507X
9781282255074
9786612255076
6612255072
9027299889
9789027299888