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SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Behavioral Experiments in Spatial Cognition Using Virtual Reality
Abstract. Virtual reality is used as a novel tool for behavioral experiments on humans. Two environments, Hexatown and Virtual Tubingen, are presented. Experiments on cognitive map...
Hanspeter A. Mallot, Sabine Gillner, Hendrik A. H....
SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Mental Models in Spatial Reasoning
This chapter gives an overview of our ongoing experimental research in the MeMoSpace project, concerning the cognitive processes underlying human spatial reasoning. Our theoretical...
Markus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, Christoph Schlieder,...
SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
The Impact of Exogenous Factors on Spatial Coding in Perception and Memory
In the course of acquiring knowledge about layouts and maps spatial information can undergo considerable changes and distortions, which systematically affect knowledge-based judgme...
Jörg Gehrke, Bernhard Hommel
SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Shape Nouns and Shape Concepts: A Geometry for 'Corner'
This paper investigates geometric and ontological aspects of shape concepts underlying the semantics of nouns. Considering the German shape nouns Ecke and Knick (corner and kink) w...
Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel, Lars Kulik, ...
SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Spatial Orientation in Virtual Environments: Background Considerations and Experiments
Spatial orientation strongly relies on visual and whole-body information available while moving through space. As virtual environments allow to isolate the contribution of visual i...
Fredrik Wartenberg, Mark May, Patrick Péruc...
SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Human Place Learning in a Computer Generated Arena
We describe the development of a computer-generated arena within which one can study human place learning by asking subjects to locate an invisible target. A series of studies demo...
L. Nadel, K. G. F. Thomas, H. E. Laurance, R. Skel...
SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
How Space Structures Language
As Talmy has observed, language schematizes space; language provides a systematic framework to describe space, by selecting certain aspects of a referent scene while neglecting the...
Barbara Tversky, Paul U. Lee