Spatial Cognition III

This third volume documents the results achieved within a priority program on spatial cognition funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

Routes and Navigation.- Navigating by Mind and by Body.- Pictorial Representations of Routes: Chunking Route Segments during Comprehension.- Self-localization in Large-Scale Environments for the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair.- The Role of Geographical Slant in Virtual Environment Navigation.- Granularity Transformations in Wayfinding.- A Geometric Agent Following Route Instructions.- Cognition Meets Le Corbusier - Cognitive Principles of Architectural Design.- Human Memory and Learning.- The Effect of Speed Changes on Route Learning in a Desktop Virtual Environment.- Is It Possible to Learn and Transfer Spatial Information from Virtual to Real Worlds?.- Acquisition of Cognitive Aspect Maps.- How Are the Locations of Objects in the Environment Represented in Memory?.- Priming in Spatial Memory: A Flow Model Approach.- Context Effects in Memory for Routes.- Spatial Representation.- Towards an Architecture for Cognitive Vision Using Qualitative Spatio-temporal Representations and Abduction.- How Similarity Shapes Diagrams.- Spatial Knowledge Representation for Human-Robot Interaction.- How Many Reference Frames?.- Motion Shapes: Empirical Studies and Neural Modeling.- Use of Reference Directions in Spatial Encoding.- Spatial Reasoning.- Reasoning about Cyclic Space: Axiomatic and Computational Aspects.- Reasoning and the Visual-Impedance Hypothesis.- Qualitative Spatial Reasoning about Relative Position.- Interpretation of Intentional Behavior in Spatial Partonomies.