Representing Space in Cognition: Interrelations of behaviour, language, and formal models
Thora Tenbrink, Jan M. Wiener, and Christophe Claramunt
Abstract
Research in the areas of spatial language, spatial cognition, and spatial information science has undergone a rapid development within the past decades. Increasingly, interdisciplinary efforts are now aiming towards practical applications for the modern mobile everyday world. This results in widespread interest in combining representation models from various sources. In particular, the existing approaches to interpreting spatial representations in language deserve to be systematically combined with behavioural navigation and action data, associated cognitive processes and strategies, and forma ... More
Research in the areas of spatial language, spatial cognition, and spatial information science has undergone a rapid development within the past decades. Increasingly, interdisciplinary efforts are now aiming towards practical applications for the modern mobile everyday world. This results in widespread interest in combining representation models from various sources. In particular, the existing approaches to interpreting spatial representations in language deserve to be systematically combined with behavioural navigation and action data, associated cognitive processes and strategies, and formal representation systems capturing cognitively relevant categories and features of space. This book provides a representative collection of recent progress in understanding, analysing, and modelling spatial behaviour and associated language, with a specific emphasis on interrelationships between, and combinations of, interdisciplinary approaches and methods. The authors of the book’s articles span various disciplines related to spatial cognition, such as psychology, linguistics, computer science, and geography. Since each of these disciplines draws on a research tradition with established methodologies of its own, building bridges as such is a major feat, which this book accomplishes by meticulously establishing cross-references and merging ideas throughout. While all chapters take different issues and approaches as their starting point, they jointly and consistently pursue the aim of establishing interrelationships between empirical insights, computational models, and intuitive assistance systems. Altogether, the book will be an enjoyable and insightful read for researchers across many disciplines concerned with the spatial domain.
Keywords:
spatial language,
spatial cognition,
spatial assistance,
formalization,
modelling
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199679911 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679911.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Thora Tenbrink, editor
Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics, Bangor University
Jan M. Wiener, editor
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Bournemouth
Christophe Claramunt, editor
Chair of the Naval Academy Research Institute, France
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