The Construction of Cognitive Maps

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Portugali, Juval. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1996.
• Series: GeoJournal Library, 32
• Subjects: Computer science.; Neurosciences.; Philosophy of mind.; Neurology.; Artificial intelligence.; Human geography.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Human Geography.; Philosophy of Mind.
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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 representa...

Table of Contents:

• The Construction of Cognitive Maps: An Introduction
• The Construction of Cognitive Maps: An Introduction
• Theoretical Frameworks
• Inter-Representation Networks and Cognitive Maps
• Synergetics, Inter-Representation Networks and Cognitive Maps
• Neural Network Models of Cognitive Maps
• Connectionist Models in Spatial Cognition
• The Ecological Approach to Navigation: A Gibsonian Perspective
• Verbal Directions for Way-Finding: Space, Cognition, and Language
• Transformations
• From Visual Information to Cognitive Maps
• Constructing Cognitive Maps With Orientation Biases
• Cognitive Mapping and Wayfinding by Adults Without Vision
• The Construction of Cognitive Maps by Children with Visual Impairments
• Language as a Means of Constructing and Conveying Cognitive Maps
• Modes of Linearization in the Description of Spatial Configurations
• Specific Themes
• Modeling Directional Knowledge and Reasoning in Environmental Space: Testing Qualitative Metrics
• Mapping as a Cultural Universal.