Overview

This work aims to offer insights on processes associated with the construction of cognitive maps - that is to say, with the construction of internal representations of very large spatial entities such as towns, cities, neighbourhoods, landscapes, metropolitan areas, environments and the like. Because of their size, such entities can never be seen in their entirety, and consequently one constructs their internal representation by means of visual, as well as non-visual, modes of sensation and information - text, auditory, haptic and olfactory means for example - or by inference. Intersensory co-ordination and information transfer thus play a crucial role in the construction of cognitive maps. Because it involves a multiplicity of sensational and informational modes, the issue of cognitive maps does not fall into any single traditional cognitive field, but rather into, and often in between, several of them. Thus, although one is dealing here with processes associated with almost every aspect of our daily life, the subject has received relatively marginal scientific attention. The book is directed at researchers and students of cognitive mapping and environmental cognition. In particular it focuses on the cognitive processes by which one form of information, say haptic, is being transformed into another, say a visual image, and by which multiple forms of information participate in constructing cognitive maps.

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Author:   Juval Portugali
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1996 ed.
Volume:   32
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.580kg
ISBN:  

9780792339496

ISBN 10:   0792339495
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   31 March 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The Construction of Cognitive Maps: An Introduction.- The Construction of Cognitive Maps: An Introduction.- Theoretical Frameworks.- Inter-Representation Networks and Cognitive Maps.- Synergetics, Inter-Representation Networks and Cognitive Maps.- Neural Network Models of Cognitive Maps.- Connectionist Models in Spatial Cognition.- The Ecological Approach to Navigation: A Gibsonian Perspective.- Verbal Directions for Way-Finding: Space, Cognition, and Language.- Transformations.- From Visual Information to Cognitive Maps.- Constructing Cognitive Maps With Orientation Biases.- Cognitive Mapping and Wayfinding by Adults Without Vision.- The Construction of Cognitive Maps by Children with Visual Impairments.- Language as a Means of Constructing and Conveying Cognitive Maps.- Modes of Linearization in the Description of Spatial Configurations.- Specific Themes.- Modeling Directional Knowledge and Reasoning in Environmental Space: Testing Qualitative Metrics.- Mapping as a Cultural Universal.

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