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SPATIAL COGNITION IVREASONING, ACTION, INTERACTION
INTERNATIONAL SPATIAL COGNITION 2004, FRAUENCHIEMSEE, GERMANY, OCTOBER 11-13, 2004, REVISED SELECTED PAPERS |
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Christian Freksa (Editor), Markus Knauff (Editor), Bernd Krieg-Bruckner (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
3540250484 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783540250487 |
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SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2005 |
| Edition: |
2005 ed. |
| Series: |
Lecture Notes in Computer Science v.3343 |
| Pages: |
519 |
| Description: |
Constitutes the refereed postproceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2004 held in Fauenchiemsee, Germany in October 2004. This book is organized in topical sections on route directions, wayfinding, and spatial behaviour; description of space, prepositions and reference; meta-models, diagrams, and maps; and more. |
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This is the fourth volume in a series of books dedicated to basic research in spatial cognition. Spatial cognition is a field that investigates the connection between the physical spatial world and the mental world. Philosophers and researchers have p- posed various views concerning the relation between the physical and the mental worlds: Plato considered pure concepts of thought as separate from their physical manifestations while Aristotle considered the physical and the mental realms as two aspects of the same substance. Descartes, a dualist, discussed the interaction between body and soul through an interface organ and thus introduced a functional view that presented a challenge for the natural sciences and the humanities. In modern psych- ogy, the relation between the physical and the cognitive space has been investigated using thorough experiments, and in artificial intelligence we have seen views as diverse as 'problems can be solved on a representation of the world' and 'a representation of the world is not necessary.' Today's spatial cognition work establishes a correspondence between the mental and the physical worlds by studying and exploiting their interaction; it investigates how mental space and spatial "reality" join together in understanding the world and in interacting with it. The physical and representational aspects are equally important in this work. Almost all topics of cognitive science manifest themselves in spatial cognition. |
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Germany |
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K |
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