A Computational Multi-layered Model for the Interpretation of Locative Expressions

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Part I
5. Men and Women, Maps and Minds 3
6. A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Spatial Cognition 19
7. Describers and Explorers 33
8. The Functional Separability of Self-Reference and Object-to-Object Systems in Spatial Memory 45
9. In Search for an Overall Organizing Principle in Spatial Mental Models 69
10. Describing the Topology of Spherical Regions using the ‘RCC’ Formalism 83
11. Cognitive Mapping in Rats and Humans 105
12. Spatial Cognition Without Spatial Concepts 127
13. Space Under Stress 137
14. Part II
15. CHAMELEON meets spatial cognition 149
16. SONAS: Multimodal, Multi-User Interaction with a Modelled Environment 171
17. Designing Real-Time Software Advisors for 3D Spatial Operations 185
18. Using Spatial Semantics to Discover and Verify Diagrammatic Demonstrations of Geometric Propositions 199
19. Formal Specifications of Image Schemata for Interoperability in Geographic Information Systems 213
20. Using a Spatial Display to Represent the Temporal Structure of Multimedia Documents 233
21. Part III
22. A Computational Multi-layered Model for the Interpretation of Locative Expressions 249
23. The Composition of Conceptual Structure for Spatial Motion Imperatives 267
24. Modelling Spatial Inferences in Text Understanding 285
25. Linguistic and Graphical Representations and the Characterisation of Individual Differences 299
26. Part IV
27. Given-New Versus New-Given? 317
28. A Connectionist Model of the Processes Involved in Generating and Exploring Visual Mental Images 329
29. Working Memory and Mental Synthesis 347
30. Subject Index 361