Mental Representation and Processing of Geographic Knowledge: A Computational Approach

by Thomas Barkowsky

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540002161
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/12/2003
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #2541
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

State of the Art.- MIRAGE - Developing the Model.- Visual Mental Image Construction in Detail.- MIRAGE Implementation.- Conclusion and Outlook.