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In cognitive science, mental representations of spatial knowledge are metaphorically referred to as cognitive maps. However, investigations in cognitive psychology reveal that the cognitive map metaphor is inadequate and that more suitable conceptions of
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen
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Thomas Barkowsky
Mental Representation and Processing of Geographic Knowledge A Computational Approach
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Author Thomas Barkowsky Universität Bremen, FB 03, Cognitive Systems Bibliothekstr. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] This thesis was accepted as doctoral dissertation by the Department for Informatics, University of Hamburg and based on this work the author was granted the academic degree Dr. rer. nat. Date of the oral examination: 14 May 2002 Review committee: Prof. Christian Freksa, Ph.D. Prof. Mary Hegarty, Ph.D. Prof. Bernd Neumann, Ph.D.
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Preface
Spatial Cognition is one of the hot fields of current research in cognitive science. Scientific disciplines like computer science, cognitive psychology, geography, linguistics, or philosophy cooperate in investigating how agents (i.e. humans, animals, mobile robots, or other intelligent devices) apprehend and process knowledge about their spatial environments, how they act in space, and how they interact and communicate in and about their spatial world. This book is an interdisciplinary contribution to the investigation of human mental processing of knowledge about geographic space. In cognitive science, mental representations of spatial knowledge are metaphorically referred to as cognitive maps. However, investigations in cognitive psychology revea
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