The Construction of Cognitive Maps {GeoJournal Library ; V. 32}
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780585334851
Subjects: Geographical perception
Description: Aimed at researchers and students of cognitive mapping and environmental cognition, this work focuses on the cognitive processes by which one form of information is being transformed into another, and by which multiple forms of information participate in constructing cognitive maps.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Front Matter; The Construction of Cognitive Maps: An Introduction; 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; From Visual Information to Cognitive Maps; Constructing Cognitive Maps With Orientation Biases; Cognitive Mapping and Wayfinding by Adults Without Vision; title: The Construction of Cognitive Maps by Children with Visual ImpairmentsLanguage as a Means of Constructing and Conveying Cognitive Maps; Modes of Linearization in the Description of Spatial Configurations; Modeling Directional Knowledge and Reasoning in Environmental Space: Testing Qualitative Metrics; Mapping as a Cultural Universal; Back Matter