Mental Representation and Processing of Geographic Knowledge
Subtitle: A Computational Approach (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9783540002161
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Geographical information systems (GIS); Other software packages; Psychology; General; Expert Systems; Geographical Research; Computers; Knowledge acquisition (Expert systems); Computer Books: General; Knowledge acquisition (Expert; Artificial Intelligence - General; Cognitive Psychology; Cognition; Cognitive Maps; Cognitive Science; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Diagrammatic Reasoning; Geographic Cognition; Geographic Information; Geographic Knowledge; Computer Graphics - General; Geographical perception
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.