Mental Representation and Processing of Geographic Knowledge: A Computational Approach (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

Barkowsky, Thomas

ISBN 10: 3540002162 / ISBN 13: 9783540002161

Published by Springer, 2003

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Title: Mental Representation and Processing of ...

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

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.