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Mental Representation and Processing of Geographic Knowledge: A Computational Approach

By Thomas Barkowsky (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2002
ISBN
978-3-540-00216-1, 978-3-540-36194-7
DOI
10.1007/3-540-36194-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10899832 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2541
Edition
1
Pages
178\188
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computergeneral; Database Management; Geographical Informa

Description

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 human spatial knowledge processing are needed. This book addresses mental processing of knowledge about geographic space from an AI point of view by presenting an experimental computational modeling approach. Results about human memory and visual mental imagery from cognitive psychology are combined with AI techniques of spatial and diagrammatic knowledge processing. The author develops the diagrammatic reasoning architecture MIRAGE as a comprehensive conception of human geographic knowledge processing.

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